Hideo Ohno

Japanese physicist

Hideo Ohno
大野英男
Hideo Ohno

22nd President of Tohoku University
Incumbent
Assumed office April 2018
Preceded by	Susumu Satomi

Personal details
Born	(1954-12-18) December 18, 1954 (age 69) Tokyo
Citizenship	Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	University of Tokyo

Hideo Ohno (Japanese: 大野英男; Hideo Ōno; born 18 December 1954, Tokyo) is a Japanese physicist. He is the 22nd president of Tohoku University, succeeding Susumu Satomi in April 2018.^[1]

Biography

Ohno received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1977, 1979 and 1982. He spent one year as a visiting graduate student at Cornell University in 1979.^[2] He was a lecturer at the School of Engineering at Hokkaido University from 1982 to 1983, and an associate professor from 1983 to 1994. He was a visiting scientist at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 1988 to 1990.

In 1994 Ohno was appointed a professor at Tohoku University^[3] and a professor at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC) from 1995.^[4] In 2004 he became the head of the laboratory of Nanoelectronics and Spintronics at Tohoku University. From 2010 until March 2018, Ohno served as the director of the Center for Spintronics Integrated Systems. He was tipped as a possible candidate to receive a Nobel Prize in 2011, for his work in spintronics.^[5] Ohno later in 2021 became an international fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).

Works

Ikeda, S.; Miura, K.; Yamamoto, H.; Mizunuma, K.; Gan, H. D.; Endo, M.; Kanai, S.; Hayakawa, J.; Matsukura, F.; Ohno, H. (August 2010). "A perpendicular-anisotropy CoFeB–MgO magnetic tunnel junction". Nature Materials. 9 (9): 721–724. Bibcode:2010NatMa...9..721I. doi:10.1038/nmat2804. PMID 20622862.
Ohno, H.; Chiba, D.; Matsukura, F.; Omiya, T.; Abe, E.; Dietl, T.; Ohno, Y.; Ohtani, K. (2000). "Electric-field control of ferromagnetism". Nature. 408 (6815): 944–946. Bibcode:2000Natur.408..944O. doi:10.1038/35050040. PMID 11140674. S2CID 4397543.
Dietl, T.; Ohno, H.; Matsukura, F; et al. (2000). "Zener model description of ferromagnetism in zinc-blende magnetic semiconductors". Science. 287 (5455): 1019–1022. Bibcode:2000Sci...287.1019D. doi:10.1126/science.287.5455.1019. PMID 10669409. S2CID 19672003.
Ohno, H. (1998). "Making nonmagnetic semiconductors ferromagnetic". Science. 281 (5379): 951–956. Bibcode:1998Sci...281..951O. doi:10.1126/science.281.5379.951. PMID 9703503.

Awards

1998 - IBM Japan Science Award
2005 - Japan Academy Prize, jointly with Hiroyuki Sakaki for "Studies on Quantum Control of Electrons by Semiconductor Nanostructures and Ferromagnetism"
2005 - EPS Europhysics Prize, jointly with David Awschalom and Tomasz Dietl, for their work on ferromagnetic semiconductors and spintronics
2011 - Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate
2012 - JSAP Outstanding Achievement Award^[6]
2012 - IEEE David Sarnoff Award, in recognition of his leadership and contribution in the electronics division of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ^[7]
2018 - Clarivate Citation Laureate ^[8]
2023 - Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Warsaw^[9]

References

^ University News - Hideo Ohno selected as president
^ Hideo Ohno profile
^ Hideo Ohno "Development of Ferromagnetic Semiconductors"
^ Feature Highlights - Taking memory for a spin
^ Spintronics researcher likely to be in contention for Nobel honors
^ Researcher Hideo Ohno Archived 2019-12-14 at the Wayback Machine - Advanced Institute for Materials Research
^ Hideo Ohno Archived 2016-04-08 at the Wayback Machine - FIRST Program
^ "2018 Citation Laureates - Physics". Archived from the original on 2018-10-01. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
^ "Japoński fizyk doktorem honoris causa UW". Retrieved 2023-11-16.