Japanese graduates

Horii, K. (1971) A study on Kosaka Uwamuki deposits. Graduation Thesis, Hokkaido U. (in Japanese). Horikoshi, E. (1960) The stratigraphical horizon of the Kuroko deposits in Hanaoka-Kosaka area. Green Tuff district of Japan. Mining Geology, 10, 300-310 (in Japanese). 

The /h-symmetric C60 molecule was first described by Osawa (1970), and the concept expanded the following year in the final chapter of Yoshida Osawa (1971). The book was read widely by Japanese chemists. There was, however, little response to my proposal of the potential stability of the football-shaped molecule. In the meantime, for reasons mentioned below, we stopped working on aromaticity and engaged in new fields of research until the classic paper of Kroto et al. (1985) appeared. In 1986, O Brien, then a graduate student with Smalley at Rice University, U.S.A., asked Yoshida for an English copy of this book and we produced a translation of pertinent portions (pp. 174-178) for him. This translation (slightly polished) is reproduced below. 

So, when Miiller and Bednorz s report came out in Zeitschrift fur Physik, Japanese physicists not only saw the obscure German journal, but read it very carefully. At first, there was a touch of skepticism, but just a touch. One specialist in superconductors, Koichi Kitazawa, a member of Shoji Tanaka s team at Tokyo University, was not immediately impressed he tossed it off to a graduate student in physics who had asked for permission to repeat the IBM scientists experiment, as one account of the incident had it, and make a joke of it. By November 1986, the Japanese weren t laughing they had done the Meissner test, and the ceramic responded magnetically, confirmation that the Miiller-Bednorz discovery was no fluke. 

Nozawa, E. 2005. Deep-sea benthic foraminiferal fauna from the equatorial Pacific Ocean. MSc Thesis, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University [in Japanese]. 

In the June 25, 1990, Wall Street Journal. Alan Murray and Urban Lehner, in a cover story article entitled, "Strained Alliance What U.S. Scientists Discover, the Japanese Convert-Into Profit," support Gray s thesis but go beyond it. They recognize that improving the academic/industrial interface is a two way street. In support they quote a recent Ph.D. graduate in engineering as follows ... 

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