Hideo Hosono

Institution
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Country
Japan

Field
Materials Sciences

Hosono received the 2018 Von Hippel Award from the Materials Research Society for developing transparent oxide semiconductors that are now widely used in liquid crystal displays. (Photo: Tokyo Institute of Technology)


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