INNOVATIVE MINDS IN SPIN-CENTRED SCIENCE

摘要

Tohoku University was established as Japan's third national university in 1907. As a world-leading university, it has contributed continuously to extending fundamental knowledge in a wide range of fields. It has an illustrious record of progress in science, technology and innovation, especially in the fields of materials science and engineering. Some standout achievements from the university's numerous technological advances include Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda's world-famous directional antenna, Jun-ichi Nishizawa's optical devices, which underpin modern optical communication systems, and Kotaro Honda's KS and NKS steels - the strongest magnets of their times.