Sumio Iijima is a Japanese physicist, often cited as the discoverer of carbon nanotubes. Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his "discovery"<sup>1</sup>, Iijima's 1991 paper generated unprecedented interest in the carbon nanostructures and has since fueled intense research in the area of nanotechnology. Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1939, Iijima graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1963 from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. Wikipedia
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· Iijima Sumio , born May 2 , 1939 ) is a Japanese physicist , often cited as the discoverer of carbon nanotubes . Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his "discovery" 1 , Iijima's 1991 paper generated unprecedented interest in the carb bigissue.co.za/bigissue/Sumio_Iijima
· Iijima Sumio , born May 2 , 1939 ) is a Japanese physicist , often cited as the discoverer of carbon nanotubes . Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his "discovery" 1 , Iijima's 1991 paper generated unprecedented interest in the carb www.1bx.com/en/Sumio_Iijima.htm
Sumio Iijima is a professor at Meijo University, Nagoya since 1999 and he has been appointed as director of Research Center for Advanced Carbon Materials at AIST in Japan and also partly works as a Senior Research Fellow at NEC. After graduating from Toh www.nanotech.net/ntne2006/speakers_bio.htm
