Minoru Oda#

Sadly, this member passed away.
Membership Number:1632
Membership type:FOREIGN
Section:EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES
Elected:1994
Main Country of Residence:JAPAN


Minoru Oda passed away March 1, 2001.

Positions held
  • Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
  • President of the Tokyo University of Information Science
  • 1994 Director of the International Institute for Advanced Studies near Osaka
  • 1988 - 1993 President of RIKEN
  • 1966 - 1988 Professor of physics, Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science (ISAS) at Tokyo University, 1984 General director of ISAS
  • 1962 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 1956 Associate professor of physics at Tokyo University’s Institute for Nuclear Studies (INS)
  • 1953 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fields of Scholarship
  • Cosmic-ray and space physics
  • X-ray astronomy
  • X-ray binary

Honours and Awards
  • 1967 Nishina Memorial Prize
  • 1975 Japan Academy Prize
  • 1980 Asahi Prize
  • 1987 Theodore von Karman Award from the International Academy of Astronautics
  • 1991 Marcel Grossmann Award
  • 1992 Member of Vatican Academy
  • 1993 Japan’s Order of Cultural Merit
  • 1996 1996 COSPAR Space Science Award from the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) of the International Council for Science.
  • 1999 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 First Class Order of the Sacred Treasure, presented by the Japanese emperor
  • 1999 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences


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