RIKEN Cyclotron No. 3
This is an accelerator that was rebuilt at the RIKEN Institute after the war. The first model, built by Yoshio Nishina and others before the war, was lost during the conflict…
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The Electron Microscope Used to Discover Carbon Nanotubes
This case concerns Sumio Iijima, who was the first in the world to discover multi-walled carbon nanotubes in 1991 and single-walled carbon nanotubes in 1993…
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Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, the Birthplace of
Physical Metallurgy and Magnetism Research in Japan and Its Collection
of Historical Materials in Honda Memorial HallThe Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University was founded by Kotaro Honda, who introduced a physical perspective to metallurgy, and through precise experimental measurements, it has studied solid…
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Hideki Yukawa’s Historical Documents
Hideki Yukawa was a theoretical physicist who won Japan’s first Nobel Prize (in Physics) in 1949. This case concerns the work for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize…
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Terada Torahiko Materials and the Related Historical Sites (Site of
Terada Torahiko Residence)In addition to his contributions to early X-ray crystallography, Torahiko Terada conducted research on familiar and diverse topics—known as “Terada Physics”—and studied the Earth…
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