Sumio Iijima

Sumio Iijima

male, 70 years old
Sumio Iijima is a Japanese physicist, often cited as the discoverer of carbon nanotubes. Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his...
Tadahiro Sekimoto

Tadahiro Sekimoto

male, 83 years old
Over the past half-century, Dr. Tadahiro Sekimoto has contributed significantly to the enormous growth of the NEC Corporaton and Japan's...
Kunihiko Iwadare

Kunihiko Iwadare

male
was a graduate of the Imperial College of Engineering (Kobu Daigaku) in Tokyo. He worked as a telegraph engineer for the Japanese government. He...
Walter Tenney Carleton

Walter Tenney Carleton

male, deceased (1900)
Walter Tenney Carleton (24 December 1867 - 6 July 1900) was an American businessman. He was one of the three founding directors of NEC Corporation,...
Chi-Foon Chan

Chi-Foon Chan

male
Chi-Foon Chan is President and Chief Operating Officer of Synopsys, Inc.. From the Synopsys website... Dr. Chi-Foon Chan shares responsibility for...
Steve Lawrence

Steve Lawrence

male
Dr. Steve Lawrence was among the group at NEC Research which was responsible for the creation of the Search Engine/Digital Library CiteSeer. He is...
Yoshisuke Aikawa

Yoshisuke Aikawa

male, deceased (1967)
Yoshisuke Aikawa (or Gisuke Ayukawa was a Japanese businessman. He turned the Kuhara Mining Company into Nissan in 1928 (with Nihon Sangyo). He was...
Gary William Flake

Gary William Flake

male
Dr. Gary William Flake is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and author of the book, "The Computational Beauty of Nature" (MIT Press 1998), which is...
Berny Goodheart

Berny Goodheart

male
Berny Goodheart is a computer scientist and author. He is best known for his books about the Unix operating system. He has also worked extensively...