Title: In Memory Of Akira Tonomura: Physicist And Electron Microscopist
Abstract: This volume in honor of Dr Akira is to commemorate his enormous contributions to fundamental physics in addition to the basic technology of electron microscopy. Dr passed away on May 2, 2012 at the age of 70. He was Fellow of Hitachi, Ltd., Group Director of Single Quantum Dynamics Research Group of RIKEN, Principal Investigator of the FIRST Project, and Professor of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. The book consists of: 1) contributions from distinguished physicists, who participated in the Tonomura FIRST International Symposium on Electron Microscopy and Gauge Fields planned by himself and held in Tokyo on May 9 - 10, 2012, and 2) reprints of key papers by and his team. Invited speakers at this Symposium include Chen Ning Yang and other distinguished physicists such as Yakir Aharonov, Gordon Baym, Christian Colliex, Anthony J Leggett, Naoto Nagaosa, Nobuyuki Osakabe and Masahito Ueda. This memorial Symposium was originally planned to commemorate the start of the Japanese-government-sponsored FIRST Project to construct the 1.2 MV holography electron microscope capable of observing quantum phenomena in the microscopic world. In addition, the book includes contributions from participants of the past ISQM-Tokyo symposia held at Hitachi and from Tonomura's longtime friends, including Michael Berry, Jerome Friedman, Hidetoshi Fukuyama, Joseph Imry, Yoshinori Tokura, Jaw-Shen Tsai, and Anton Zeilinger. The co-editors are Kazuo Fujikawa, Tonomura's longtime friend, and Yoshimasa A Ono who is Tonomura's associate at Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory and now in the FIRST Project.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-04-24
Language: en
Type: book
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