Professor Hiroshi Kamimura
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Education and Degree
1954: Bachelor of Physics degree, University of Tokyo
1959: Doctor of Science degree in Physics, University of Tokyo
Professional affiliation
1959: Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
1961-64: Member of Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N. J.
1965-67: Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
1967-78: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
1978-91: Professor，Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
1986-89: Chairman of the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
1989-91: Director of the Meson Science Laboratory, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
1991 March: Retirement from the University of Tokyo at the age of 60
1991 April-2006 March: Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science
2006 May-11 March: Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo University of Science
2003-16: Senior Adviser, Tokyo University of Science
1993-96: Dean of Science, Tokyo University of Science
1996-2000: Chairman, Research-Education Organization for Information Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
1996-2001: Project leader, Monbusho-High Technology Research Center for Computational Sciences at TUS
1970: Visiting Professor, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Paris VI, France
1974-75: Visiting Scholar, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, U.K.
1988-2000: Visiting Professor, The University of the Air, Japan
2010 August-15 March: Adviser, “Quantum Information Processing” ( Cabinet- office Project),
FIRST (Funding program world-leading-Initiative R & D Science and Technology)
2015 April-19 March: Adviser, Cabinet- office Project “ImPACT”
2011-present: Senior Visiting Scientist, RIKEN
Honours
Professional Honours
1981-84: Member of IUPAP Semiconductor Commission
1984-90: Chairman of IUPAP Semiconductor Commission
1982-83: Vice President of the Physical Society of Japan
1984-85: President of the Physical Society of Japan
During his Presidency JPS concluded a mutual agreement with
American Physical Society, European Physical Society
and Korean Physical Society.
1985: Resident Director of Spring College, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
He organized and presided the Spring College on Crystalline
Semiconducting Materials and Devices which was held
over two months from April to June, 1985, at ICTP.
1986: Chief Organizer, Colloque Franco-Japonais Scientifique
1989-95: Chairman, the Committee of Booster Synchrotron Utilization Facility,
High Energy Physics Research Laboratory(KEK)
1988-93: Member, the Council of Advisors for RIKEN Frontier Research Program
1997-2001: Chairman, Special Postdoctoral Researchers Programme at RIKEN
1988-present: Science Advisor of the NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratory
1991-2004: Research Consultant of the NEC Fundamental Research Laboratory at Tsukuba
1991-96: Japanese Chief Representative, The Monbusho-UK SERC Collaborative
Project on Low-Dimensional Structures and Devices of Semiconductors(LDSD)
1994-98: Member of the Steering Committee, National Center for University Entrance Examinations
(Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, i.e. Monbusho)
1998-present: Committee Member, Japanese University Accreditation Association
2002-2004: Member, Council of Institute of Materials Structure Science,
National High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
2003-17: Councilor, The Society of Non-Traditional Science and Technology
Memberships
The Physical Society of Japan
American Physical Society
Japan-British Society
Cambridge-Oxford Society in Japan
Scientific Committee in the Franco-Japan Society
Miscellaneous
Editor, Solid State Communications
Editor，Comments on Condensed Matter Science
Editor，Materia1s Science and Engineering B (E1sevier)
Founding Editor, Materia1s Science and Engineering B (E1sevier)
Editor，A Series of books on Semiconductor Science and Techno1ogy (Oxford University Press)
Advisory Board，Springer Series of Materials Science (Springer)
Advisory Editoria1 Board、International Journal of Modern Physics B
and Review of Solid State Science (World Scientific)
Advisory Editorial Board，Series "Physics and Chemistry of Materials
with Low Dimensional Structures", (Kluwer Academic Pub1ishers)
Advisory Editoria1 Board, Encyclopedia of Applied Physics (VCH Publishers, New York)
Principal Research Field
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics:
(1) Electronic structures of copper oxides and the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity
A book entitled "Theory of Copper Oxide Superconductors"
by H. Kamimura, U. Ushio, S. Matsuno and T. Hamada was published from Springer on May of 2005.
(2) Ligand Field Theory for Transition Metal Ions in Crystals and Its Application
A book entitled “Ligand Field Theory and Its Application” by H. Kamimura, S. Sugano and Y. Tanabe
which was written in Japanese was published in 1969 from Shokabo Publishers in Tokyo.
The 16th edition was published in April of 2005.
(3) A mechanism of superionic conduction in hydrogen-bonded dielectric materials.
(4) Electronic and optical properties of type II semiconductor superlattices.
(5) In 1975 to 89 "Theory of strongly Anderson-localized states in impurity bands in doped semiconductors"
had been developed. Book entitled "Physics of Interacting Electrons in Disordered Systems"
by H. Kamimura and H. Aoki was published with a preface written by Sir Nevill Mott
as International Series of Monographs on Physics, vol. 76, from the Oxford University Press in 1989.
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