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News Releases Tokyo physics professor is new Seaborg Scholar
November 10, 2010—University of Tokyo physics professor Hiroshi Yasuoka this month began a nine-month appointment as the Seaborg Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Glenn T. Seaborg Institute. He will reside in the Lab’s Condensed Matter and Magnet Science group.
A pioneer in nuclear magnetic resonance and nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopies, Yasuoka will conduct research in strongly correlated electron phenomena and materials.
Yasuoka holds dual appointments as director general of the Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo and director and scientific councilor of the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at Japan's Atomic Energy Agency.
As director of the ASRC, Yasuoka established a world-class program in the discovery and study of actinide metals and molecules, especially transuranics, and was the driving force in Japan that led to the construction of the spallation neutron source at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC).
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