Mitsuo Tasumi
| Mitsuo Tasumi | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 23, 1937 (age 89) |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Japan |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Phonon dispersion of polyethylene Professor, University of Tokyo President, Saitama University |
| 🏅 Awards | Order of the Sacred Treasure (Japan) Purple Ribbon Medal (Japan) Ellis R. Lippincott Award of Optical Society of America Prize of the Chemical Society of Japan |
Mitsuo Tasumi (born January 23, 1937 in Nishinomiya, Japan) is a Japanese physical chemist known for his vibrational spectroscopic works on synthetic and biological macromolecules.[1] He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, and a former president of Saitama University, having trained a number of physical chemists active in academia and industry. Moto-o Tasumi, an animal scientist at Kyoto University, was his brother.
Career
Tasumi earned his B.S. (1959) and Ph.D. (1964) from the University of Tokyo in the laboratories of San-Ichiro Mizushima and of Takehiko Shimanouchi, where he reported the first phonon dispersion of polyethylene.[2] He spent the subsequent 34 years (1964-97) as a faculty member initially in the Department of Biochemistry and then in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Tokyo. During this period, he spent a year (1965-66) at University of Michigan as a Fulbright scholar and another year (1966-67) at Polytechnic University of Milan as a postdoctoral scholar.
At the University of Tokyo, Tasumi led a large group of spectroscopists, developing new experimental and computational techniques of infrared spectroscopy and Raman scattering spectroscopy. He is known for establishing the theoretical basis for interpreting the spectra of synthetic polymers (including electrically conductive polymers), proteins, and photosynthetic systems to elucidate their relationship with the structural, thermal, mechanical, transport, and response properties. He was among the earliest spectroscopists who saw the great utility of ab initio electronic structure calculations in understanding vibrational spectra. In particular, he established a steady-state spectroscopic method that can determine the structures and dynamics of electronic excited states by resonance Raman excitation profile, and applied it to polyenes including carotenoids. At the same time, he made important contributions to the development and applications of time-resolved vibrational spectroscopies. He is a co-author of the Protein Data Bank[3] and the editor/author of "Introduction to Experimental Infrared Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Practical Methods."[4]
In 2004-08, Tasumi was the President of Saitama University after serving as Professor of Chemistry (1996-2002) of Saitama University and Visiting Professor (2002-03) at University of California, Berkeley. As the President, Tasumi implemented various student-centric reforms during the government-mandated privatization of all public universities and reduction in public funding of the universities.
In 1987-89, Tasumi was a member of the Board of Directors of the Chemical Society of Japan. In 1997-99, he was the president of the Spectroscopical Society of Japan.
Honors and awards
- Prize of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (1971)
- Prize of the Chemical Society of Japan (1994)
- Prize of the Spectroscopical Society of Japan (1997)
- The Ellis R. Lippincott Award from the Optical Society of America, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and Coblentz Society (1999)
- The Purple Ribbon Medal from the Japanese Government (1999)
- The TRVS Award from the International Conference on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (1999)
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America (2000)
- Honorary Membership Award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (2004)
- Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (2004)
- Honorary Member of the Spectroscopical Society of Japan (2007)
- Honorary Member of the Japan Society for Molecular Science (2015)
- Honorary Member of the Protein Science Society of Japan (2016)
- Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Japanese Government (2017)
External links
- Mitsuo Tasumi Festschrift, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.106, Number 14 (2002).
- Optical Society of America Living History: Mitsuo Tasumi
- Chemistry Tree: Mitsuo Tasumi
References
- ↑ Atkinson GH, Furukawa Y, Okamoto, H (2002). "Scientific Contributions of Mitsuo Tasumi". Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 106 (14): 3253–3254. Bibcode:2002JPCA..106.3253.. doi:10.1021/jp020202c.
- ↑ Atkinson GH, Furukawa Y, Okamoto, H (2002). "Biography of Mitsuo Tasumi - Questions by the Guest Editors and Answers by Mitsuo Tasumi". Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 106 (14): 3255–3257. Bibcode:2002JPCA..106.3255.. doi:10.1021/jp0202035.
- ↑ Bernstein FC, Koetzle TF, Williams G, Meyer EF, Brice MD, Rodgers JR, Kennard O, Shimanouchi T, Tasumi M (1977). "The protein data bank: A computer-based archival file for macromolecular structures". Journal of Molecular Biology. 112 (3): 535–542. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(77)80200-3. PMID 875032.
- ↑ "Introduction to Experimental Infrared Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Practical Methods". Wiley.
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