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Diamond and Related Materials 5 (1996) xxxvii
In memory of Prof. Tadao Inuzuka
Tadao Inuzuka
A great scientist, researcher and teacher has closed his eyes for ever. Tadao lnuzuka passed away February 29th, 1996 in his 58th year. He struggled against a cancer, but died of heart failure. Tadao Inuzuka was born in Tokyo. He obtained his doctor of Science degree in 1968 from Waseda University. In 1969 he entered Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo as a lecturer and became Professor in 1979. He was Editor-in-Chief of the “New Diamond Forum,” a member of many scientific and engineering societies, and acted as advisory member for the Superdiamond Project of NIRIM. Already in his early scientific work he was interested
in the field of nucleation and growth of thin films. He extended his interests further from particular materials such as liquid crystals, and three-dimensional holographic microscopy, to the possibilities of organic polymers as humidity sensors. During the last decade of his life he studied several synthesis methods of low-pressure diamond from the gas phase. A number of important papers in this area witness him as one of the early pioneers in this field in Japan. His work contains over 70 scientific papers and a great number of books, dealing mainly with crystal growth, characterization of crystals and diamond films. His books are edited in Japanese, except the last one
entitled “Diamond Thin Film”, which is planned to be published in English in cooperation with Prof. J. Angus. Inuzuka was a very open-minded person and liked to cooperate with scientists all over the world. From July 1973 to September 1974 he was visiting professor at the Fritz Haber Institut Berlin of the Max Planck Society, where he studied the mechanisms of gas absorption and desorption on the metal surface by LEED. He was visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna in 1992, working on low-pressure diamond synthesis. Unfortunately, his next visit to Vienna planned for Spring 1996 could not take place. In his own Institute at the Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, he was always surrounded by a great number of masters and undergraduate students, as well as by visiting researchers from other countries. He was appreciated very much by his students, co-workers and friends for his sharp mind and careful thinking, his never ending new ideas and, last but not least, for his great ability to obtain essential results with quite simple means and
methods needing only a strict minimum of expensive and sophisticated equipment. He used to say that all good researchers must have their own, personal big dreams, which seem impossible to realize, but must always do their very best to reach their apparently unreachable goals. All those who knew him as a teacher, as a friend, and as a colleague appreciated him as a friendly, cultivated, gentle, helpful and quiet person, always ready to cooperate, to give help and advise. And last but not least, we all appreciated his great and charming sense of humor and admired also his personal modesty. His many friends all over the world will miss him and shall keep an excellent and unforgettable memory forever. Benno Lux Technical University, Vienna, Austria Atsuhito Sawabe Aoyama Gokuin University Tokyo, Japan
Diamond and Related Materials 5 (1996) xxxvii
In memory of Prof. Tadao Inuzuka
Tadao Inuzuka
A great scientist, researcher and teacher has closed his eyes for ever. Tadao lnuzuka passed away February 29th, 1996 in his 58th year. He struggled against a cancer, but died of heart failure. Tadao Inuzuka was born in Tokyo. He obtained his doctor of Science degree in 1968 from Waseda University. In 1969 he entered Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo as a lecturer and became Professor in 1979. He was Editor-in-Chief of the “New Diamond Forum,” a member of many scientific and engineering societies, and acted as advisory member for the Superdiamond Project of NIRIM. Already in his early scientific work he was interested
in the field of nucleation and growth of thin films. He extended his interests further from particular materials such as liquid crystals, and three-dimensional holographic microscopy, to the possibilities of organic polymers as humidity sensors. During the last decade of his life he studied several synthesis methods of low-pressure diamond from the gas phase. A number of important papers in this area witness him as one of the early pioneers in this field in Japan. His work contains over 70 scientific papers and a great number of books, dealing mainly with crystal growth, characterization of crystals and diamond films. His books are edited in Japanese, except the last one
entitled “Diamond Thin Film”, which is planned to be published in English in cooperation with Prof. J. Angus. Inuzuka was a very open-minded person and liked to cooperate with scientists all over the world. From July 1973 to September 1974 he was visiting professor at the Fritz Haber Institut Berlin of the Max Planck Society, where he studied the mechanisms of gas absorption and desorption on the metal surface by LEED. He was visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna in 1992, working on low-pressure diamond synthesis. Unfortunately, his next visit to Vienna planned for Spring 1996 could not take place. In his own Institute at the Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, he was always surrounded by a great number of masters and undergraduate students, as well as by visiting researchers from other countries. He was appreciated very much by his students, co-workers and friends for his sharp mind and careful thinking, his never ending new ideas and, last but not least, for his great ability to obtain essential results with quite simple means and
methods needing only a strict minimum of expensive and sophisticated equipment. He used to say that all good researchers must have their own, personal big dreams, which seem impossible to realize, but must always do their very best to reach their apparently unreachable goals. All those who knew him as a teacher, as a friend, and as a colleague appreciated him as a friendly, cultivated, gentle, helpful and quiet person, always ready to cooperate, to give help and advise. And last but not least, we all appreciated his great and charming sense of humor and admired also his personal modesty. His many friends all over the world will miss him and shall keep an excellent and unforgettable memory forever. Benno Lux Technical University, Vienna, Austria Atsuhito Sawabe Aoyama Gokuin University Tokyo, Japan