Akito Arima
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| Born | September 13, 1930 Osaka, Japan |
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| Nationality | Japan |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Tokyo Argonne National Laboratory Rutgers University State University of New York at Stony Brook Hosei University RIKEN |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| Known for | Interacting boson model |
| Notable awards | Nishina Memorial Prize Humboldt Prize John Price Wetherill Medal Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Japan Academy Prize Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Legion of Honour Order of the British Empire (KBE) Person of Cultural Merit Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun Order of Culture |
Akito Arima (有馬 朗人 Arima Akito?, September 13, 1930 – December 7, 2020) was a Japanese nuclear physicist and politician, known for the interacting boson model.[1][2][3][4]
Personal life
Arima was born 1930 in Osaka. He studied at the University of Tokyo, where he received his doctorate in 1958. He became a research associate at the Institute for Nuclear Studies in 1956.
Arima died on December 7, 2020 at the age of 90.[5]
Career
Arima became a lecturer in 1960, and an associate professor at the Department of Physics in 1964 at the University of Tokyo. He was promoted to a full professor in 1975. He was president of the University of Tokyo during 1989–1993. In 1993, he moved to Hosei University. Since 1993, he has been scientific adviser of the Ministry of Education and from 1993 to 1998 president of RIKEN.[6][7]
He was a visiting professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey (1967–1968), and a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1971–1973). In 1974, he founded the interacting boson model with Francesco Iachello.
In 1998 he entered the Diet of Japan as a member of the House of Councillors for the Liberal Democratic Party. He was Minister of Education until 1999 under the government of Keizo Obuchi. After the cabinet reshuffle in 1999, he served as Director of the Science Museum. From 2000 he was chairman of the Japan Science Foundation.
Arima has served as the Chancellor of Musashi Academy of the Nezu Foundation since 2006.[8][9]
Awards and honors
- Nishina Memorial Prize (1978)
- Honorary Professor, the University of Glasgow (1984)
- Humboldt Award (1987)
- Haiku Society Prize for a book of poetry (haiku poems) (1988)[10]
- John Price Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute (1990)
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1990)
- Military William Order (1991)
- Honorary Doctor, Drexel University (1992)
- Honorary Professor, the University of Science and Technology, China (1992)
- Honorary Doctor, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan (1992)
- Bonner Prize of the American Physical Society (1993)
- Japan Academy Prize (1993)
- Honorary Doctor, the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1994)
- Honorary Doctor, the University of Groningen (1994)[11]
- Honorary Doctor, the University of Birmingham (1996)
- Grand Officier of the Legion of Honour (1998)
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)[12]
- Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) (2002)
- Person of Cultural Merit (2004)
- Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2004)
- Order of Culture (2010)
References
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| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by | Minister of Education 1998–1999 |
Succeeded by Hirofumi Nakasone |
| Preceded by
Yutaka Takeyama
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Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency 1999 |
Succeeded by Hirofumi Nakasone |
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- ↑ Arima, Iachello Collective nuclear states as representations of a SU(6) Group, Physical Review Letters 35, 1069–1072 (1975).
- ↑ Arima, Iachello The interacting boson model, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- ↑ Arima, Iachello Interacting boson model of collective states, Part 1 (the vibrational limit) Annals of Physics 99, 253-317 (1976), Part 2 (the rotational limit) ibid. 111, 201-238 (1978), Part 3 (the transition from SU (5) to SU (3)), ibid. 115, 325-366 (1978), Part 4 (the O(6) limit) ibid. 123, 468-492 (1979).
- ↑ Arima, Iachello The Interacting Boson Model, Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science 31, 75 (1981).
- ↑ 有馬朗人氏死去 元東大学長・文相、90歳 Script error: No such module "In lang".
- ↑ Biography, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae, Japan Science and Technology Agency.
- ↑ 有馬朗人, Akito Arima - Japanese Wikipedia Entry
- ↑ [1], Musashi University Website
- ↑ Arima Einstein's Century: Akito Arima's Haiku, Brooks Books, 2001.
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