The Asian Scientist 100
Sumio Iijima
Professor
Institution
Meijo University/AIST
Country
Japan
Field
Chemistry
Sumio Iijima, Akira Koshio and Masako Yudasaka shared the European Inventor Award 2015 in the non-European countries category for their ground-breaking discovery of carbon nanotubes and for developing a sustainable process to produce them.
(Photo: Sumio Iijima)
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