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Tokyo Institute of Technology was founded by the government of Japan as the Tokyo Vocational School on May 26, 1881, [3] 14 years after the Meiji Restoration.To accomplish the quick catch-up to the West, the government expected this school to cultivate new modernized craftsmen and engineers.
He became an associate professor in 1993. In 2000, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) as a professor in the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory. In 2016, he became the director-general of Institute of Innovative Research at Tokyo Tech. In 2018, he was named president of Tokyo Tech. [5]
Yoshinori Ohsumi – Nobel laureate (Medicine, 2016); Hideki Shirakawa (BSc 1961, PhD 1966) – Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 2000) [1]; Pailin Chuchottaworn – former CEO and president of PTT, founder and chairman of Kamnoetvidya Science Academy [2] [3] [4]
Shigeo Hirose (広瀬 茂男, Hirose Shigeo) [1] (born 1947 in Tokyo) is a pioneer of robotics technology [2] [3] and a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.. Born in Tokyo and attending Hibiya High School, he graduated from Yokohama National University in 1971 and received a Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1976 where he later took professorship.
Orihara married Kiyoshi Takiura, who she had met whilst a student at Tokyo Tech, in 1939. [4] Both her scientific career and married life were interrupted after the United States of America declared war on Japan during World War II and the Pacific War broke out. [ 1 ]
After his retirement in 2014, he continued to serve as Professor at Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Currently, he is head of the Cell Biology Research Unit, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology. [5] Christian de Duve coined the term autophagy in 1963 whereas Ohsumi began his work in 1988.
Tokyo University of Technology. Tokyo University of Technology (東京工科大学, Tōkyō kōka daigaku) is a private university in Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in May 1947. After becoming a vocational school in 1953, it was chartered as a university in 1986.
Kenichirō "Ken" Mogi (茂木 健一郎, Mogi Kenichirō, born October 20, 1962 in Tokyo) is a Japanese scientist. He is a senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories and a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. According to the profile posted at his personal blog, his mission is "to solve the so-called mind-brain ...