Reiko Kuroda

The author would like to acknowledge his colleagues, Professor Reiko Kuroda, Dr. Shin-ichi Nishikiori, Mr. Takafumi Kitazawa, M.A., Mr. Motoyasu Imamura, B.Sc., and Mr. Hidetaka Yuge, B.Sc., for their cooperation in this work. 

Reiko Kuroda Department of Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, and Kuroda Chiromorphology Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan... 

Reiko Kuroda (b. 1947 in Japan) is at the Department of Life Sciences. of Tokyo University. In fact, she is the first female full professor in the history of this most prestigious institution. My narrative is based on a conversation we recorded in May 1999 in Budapest. ... 

Some time in the early 1980s, I met Reiko Kuroda, for the first time, in London, where she was a postdoc. At that time she was facing an uncertain future. It was tough to get a permanent job in Britain, and she had been away fi om Japan for too long to hope to get a job there. 

Reiko Kuroda in the company of four Nobel laureates in Tokyo, 1996 clockwise from her, Mrs. Watson, James Watson, Francis Crick, Mrs. Crick, Mrs. Jacob, Francois Jacob, and Susumu Tonegawa (courtesy of Reiko Kuroda). 

Reiko Kuroda, Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Science,... 

Kuroda accompanied Wilkins on a trip to Japan. He was a little worried about the trip. He had been involved with the Manhattan Project during World War II as one of the British team working in California. Of course, his Japanese hosts knew about his work on the bomb. Wilkins asked Reiko, What should I talk about He didn t want to upset anybody. 

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