Hideo Hosono

Hideo Hosono is a Japanese material scientist most known for the discovery of iron-based superconductors.
Hosono, Hideki Shirakawa and Yoshinori Ohsumi are the three keynote speakers at the Institute of Integrated Research founding lecture at the Institute of Science Tokyo.

Early life and education

Hosono was born in September 1953 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, one of the satellite cities of Tokyo. Dropped out of high school in 1974, graduated from the Department of Industrial Chemistry of Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1977, and obtained a doctorate in engineering from TMU in 1982.

Career and research

Hosono is also a pioneer in developing transparent oxide semiconductors: he proposed a material design concept for a transparent amorphous oxide semiconductor with large electron mobility, demonstrated the excellent performance of TAOS thin-film transistors for next generation displays and successfully converted a cement constituent 12CaO·7Al2O3 into transparent semiconductor, metal, and eventually superconductors.

Awards and honors

2009 – Bernd T. Matthias Prize for Superconductivity
2009 – Medal of Honor (Purple Ribbon)
2012 – Nishina Memorial Prize
2013 – Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates
2015 – Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy
2016 – Japan Prize
2017 – Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society
2018 – Materials Research Society's Von Hippel Award
2019 - Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist
2022 – Eduard Rhein Technology Award

Selected publications

According to the Web of Science, Hideo Hosono has co-authored 5 articles with more than 1000 citations each :
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