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Professor Akira Yamamoto was awarded by the IEEE in USA by his great contribution to the field of applied superconductivity. He was recognized as a winner of the IEEE Award for Continuing and Significant Contributions in the Field of Applied Superconductivity at the 2008 Applied Superconductivity Conference held at Chicago, USA, August 18, 2008.
He has made a large contribution as a leader of advancing application of superconducting magnet technology in the field of high energy accelerator, particle physics and astro-particle physics, as well as promoting many international cooperation projects. In the early stage of application of superconducting technology in Japan, he played a central role in the construction of the superconducting beam-line, superconducting solenoid magnets for the TOPAZ and other experiments. He also led the BESS experiment to detect antiprotons from space using a superconducting magnet and detectors equipped with a balloon. Furthermore he has developed advanced particle detectors by making the magnet as thin as possible. This idea and its technology were later used in the superconducting solenoid of the ATLAS experiment for the LHC project. In addition, he promoted a development of superconducting magnets for accelerators by cooperation with overseas institution such as the CERN and the Fermilab, which led the success in the design and construction of the superconducting quadrupole magnets for the interaction points of the LHC Accelerator.
Meanwhile he has been devoting his great effort in training young researchers and, as a consequence, many excellent researchers have grown up from his group.
According to his great contribution to the development of application of superconducting technology in the field of experiments for high energy accelerators such as the LHC, particle physics and astro-particle physics, and to his achievements of the leadership in the development of particle detectors using superconducting technoligy on high- intensity aluminum stabilized niobium-titanium(NbTi), he was awarded as a winner of the IEEE Award for Continuing and Significant Contributions in the Field of Applied Superconductivity.
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1972 |
Graduated the graduate school of the Jiyu-gakuen |
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1972 |
Engineering Official, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics
( present High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK) |
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1977 |
Assistant Professor, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics |
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1988 |
Associate Professor, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics |
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1996 |
Professor, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics |
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2003 |
Head, Cryogenics Science Center, KEK |
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