Bernd T. Matthias Prize for superconductivity materials

Yoshiteru Maeno
Kyoto University

Citation:
“For his 1994 discovery and subsequent purification of Sr2RuO4 that creates a unique platform for revealing decisively some unusual features of superconductivity.”

Yoshiteru Maeno received his BS in Physics from Kyoto University in 1979 and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1984. After working as a research associate and an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Hiroshima University from 1984 to 1996, and as an associate professor at Kyoto University, he became a full professor in the International Innovation Center at Kyoto University in 2001. Since 2006, he has been a full professor in the Department of Physics at Kyoto University. Maeno was a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research, Zurich, working with Dr. J.G. Bednorz from 1988 to 1989.

Maeno was named as a recipient of the Superconductivity Science and Technology Award (co-awarded with M. Sigrist) in 2000, the Ryogo Kubo Memorial Award in 2000, the Japan IBM Science Award in 2002, the Daiwa-Adrian Prize (awarded for the UK-Japan collaboration lead by A.P. Mackenzie and Y. Maeno) in 2004, the Thomson-Japan Research Front Award (based on the ISI Web of Science citations in 1998-2003) in 2004, and the Science and Technology Award of Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan in 2008.

Selection Committee Chair: Paul C. W. Chu