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A tribute to Professor Hiroo Inokuchi
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gVIiilTH|TIIC r-Ifl|TIS Synthetic Metals 64 (1994) 107-108
A tribute to Professor Hiroo Inokuchi
Hiroo Inokuchi was born in Hiroshima, Japan, on February 3rd, 1927. He studied chemistry at the University of Tokyo (1945-1948) just after the Second World War and received his B.S. degree from that university in 1948. He carried out graduate course study and research u n d e r the supervision of Professor J. Sameshima, University of Tokyo, and received his M.S. degree in 1950 and D.S. degree in 1956. Meanwhile he became a research associate of the University of Tokyo (1950-1959) and visited the University of Nottingham, UK, staying there as a Ramsay Fellow (1955-1957). He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Nottingham in 1957 under the supervision of Professor D.D. Eley. Thirty years later, in 1987, he received a D.S. degree from the University of Nottingham for his outstanding contributions to molecular science, especially solid state chemistry and physics focused on electronic properties of organic materials. He became an associate professor of the University of Tokyo in 1959 and moved to the Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, in 1960, where he was p r o m o t e d to a full professor in 1967. A r o u n d 1970, he was enrolled as a main m e m b e r of the preparatory committee for the foundation of the Institute for Molecular Science as a center of excellence for molecular science. Just as the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Okazaki, o p e n e d in 1975, he moved there as a first generation professor, and since then has contributed enormously to the Institute and to molecular science. He was a professor in the D e p a r t m e n t of Molecular Assemblies in IMS until his retirement from that position in 1987; he then became the Director General of the Institute as a successor to Professors Elsevier Science S.A.
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H. Akamatu and S. Nagakura. He has continued to make great contributions to the Institute and to molecular science during his six years as Director General. This special issue of Synthetic Metals is dedicated to Professor Hiroo Inokuchi in commemoration of his retirement from the position of Director General of IMS, Okazaki. For the moment, Professor Inokuchi is the President of Okazaki National Research Institutes (IMS, Institute of Physiology and Institute for Basic Biology). He has been a member of the Science Council of Japan since 1988, and an academic consultant of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science since 1991. He was honored as a Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo (1987), Honorary Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, China (1993) and Honorary Professor, Beijing University, China (1993). Professor Inokuchi has engaged in many pioneering scientific research works since the discovery of organic semiconductivity in early 1950 and throughout his career; he has published 470 original papers. He will continue his scientific activities with his research group to cultivate a novel scientific field. The details of his scientific achievements are summarized in the monograph of Professor M. Pope in this special issue. For all of his scientific achievements, Professor Inokuchi was granted the Award of the Japan Academy in 1965, Award of the Chemical Society of Japan in 1978 and Fujiwara Prize in 1989. We sincerely hope that Professor Inokuchi will afford further achievements in science and will enjoy a less busy and joyful life.
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gVIiilTH|TIIC r-Ifl|TIS Synthetic Metals 64 (1994) 107-108
A tribute to Professor Hiroo Inokuchi
Hiroo Inokuchi was born in Hiroshima, Japan, on February 3rd, 1927. He studied chemistry at the University of Tokyo (1945-1948) just after the Second World War and received his B.S. degree from that university in 1948. He carried out graduate course study and research u n d e r the supervision of Professor J. Sameshima, University of Tokyo, and received his M.S. degree in 1950 and D.S. degree in 1956. Meanwhile he became a research associate of the University of Tokyo (1950-1959) and visited the University of Nottingham, UK, staying there as a Ramsay Fellow (1955-1957). He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Nottingham in 1957 under the supervision of Professor D.D. Eley. Thirty years later, in 1987, he received a D.S. degree from the University of Nottingham for his outstanding contributions to molecular science, especially solid state chemistry and physics focused on electronic properties of organic materials. He became an associate professor of the University of Tokyo in 1959 and moved to the Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, in 1960, where he was p r o m o t e d to a full professor in 1967. A r o u n d 1970, he was enrolled as a main m e m b e r of the preparatory committee for the foundation of the Institute for Molecular Science as a center of excellence for molecular science. Just as the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Okazaki, o p e n e d in 1975, he moved there as a first generation professor, and since then has contributed enormously to the Institute and to molecular science. He was a professor in the D e p a r t m e n t of Molecular Assemblies in IMS until his retirement from that position in 1987; he then became the Director General of the Institute as a successor to Professors Elsevier Science S.A.
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H. Akamatu and S. Nagakura. He has continued to make great contributions to the Institute and to molecular science during his six years as Director General. This special issue of Synthetic Metals is dedicated to Professor Hiroo Inokuchi in commemoration of his retirement from the position of Director General of IMS, Okazaki. For the moment, Professor Inokuchi is the President of Okazaki National Research Institutes (IMS, Institute of Physiology and Institute for Basic Biology). He has been a member of the Science Council of Japan since 1988, and an academic consultant of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science since 1991. He was honored as a Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo (1987), Honorary Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, China (1993) and Honorary Professor, Beijing University, China (1993). Professor Inokuchi has engaged in many pioneering scientific research works since the discovery of organic semiconductivity in early 1950 and throughout his career; he has published 470 original papers. He will continue his scientific activities with his research group to cultivate a novel scientific field. The details of his scientific achievements are summarized in the monograph of Professor M. Pope in this special issue. For all of his scientific achievements, Professor Inokuchi was granted the Award of the Japan Academy in 1965, Award of the Chemical Society of Japan in 1978 and Fujiwara Prize in 1989. We sincerely hope that Professor Inokuchi will afford further achievements in science and will enjoy a less busy and joyful life.