Fumiko Yonezawa

Fumiko Yonezawa (米沢 富美子; born 1938) is a Japanese theoretical physicist. She researched semi-conductors and liquid metals.

Yonezawa graduated from Kyoto University. She worked with a group of scientists at Keio University, simulating amorphous structures using computers and then creating visualizations of them.[1]

She was made President of the Physics Society of Japan in 1996 and was the first woman to hold the position.[2]

Yonezawa was awarded the Saruhashi Prize in 1984. She received a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in 2005 for "pioneering theory and computer simulations on amorphous semiconductors and liquid metals."

Selected publications

References

  1. Kodate, Naonori; Kodate, Kashiko (2015). Japanese Women in Science and Engineering: History and Policy Change. Routledge. p. 98. ISBN 1-317-59505-X.
  2. Kameda, Atseko (2011). Fujimura-Fanselow, Kumiko, ed. Transforming Japan: How Feminism and Diversity Are Making a Difference. New York: Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN 1-55861-700-0.

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