Institute of Physical and Chemical Research

On his return home in 1911, Honda was appointed professor of physies at the new Tohoku Imperial University in Sendai, in the north of Japan this institution had been established only in 1906, when the finance minister twisted the arm of an industrialist who had made himself unpopular because of pollution eaused by his copper mines and extracted the necessary funds to build the new university. A provisional institute of physical and chemical research was initiated in 1916, divided into a part devoted to novel plastics and another to metals. This proved to be Honda s lifetime domain he assembled a lively team of young physicists and chemists. In the same year, Honda invented a high-cobalt steel also containing tungsten and chromium, which had by far the highest coercivity of any permanent-magnet material then known. He called it KS steel, for K. Sumitomo, one of his sponsors, and it made Honda famous. 

Present address, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Tokyo Japan. 

Hiromune Ando, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-01, Japan... 

Acknowledgments. The authors are greatly indebted to Dr. E Fukada at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research for valuable discussions. Thanks are also due to Dr. Fukada, Prof. H. Tadokoro at Osaka University, and Dr. N. Mu-rayama at Kureha Chemical Co. for permitting us to use unpublished data and information. We also thank Miss K. Sasaki for assistance in preparing manuscript... 

Institut of Physical and Chemical Research, 3-Azido-l,6-anhydro-3-deoxy-2,4-di-0-benzyl-/l-D-glucopyranose, Japan Kokai Tokkyo Koho JP 57181094 Chem. Abstr., 98 (1983) 126566. 

Bull. Inst. Phys. Chem. Res. Tokyo. Bulletin of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Tokyo. 

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