Masao Ito
Masao Itō | |
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伊藤 正男 | |
 Masao Itō | |
| Born | December 4, 1928[1] |
| Died | December 18, 2018 (aged 90) |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| Awards | Japan Academy Prize (1986) Japan Prize Gruber Prize in Neuroscience |
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| Fields | Neuroscience |
Masao Ito (伊藤 正男, Itō Masao, December 4, 1928 – December 18, 2018) was a Japanese neuroscientist, and director of the Riken Brain Science Institute.[2]
Overviews
He won the 2006 Gruber Prize in Neuroscience[3] and the 1996 Japan Prize.[4] He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1992.[5]
Life
Ito graduated from the University of Tokyo with an M.D. in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1959. He was a research fellow at Australian National University from 1959 to 1962. He taught at the University of Tokyo from 1963.[6]
Ito died on 18 December 2018 at the age of 90.[7]
References
- ^ Dr. Masao Ito. japanprize.jp
- ^ "RIKEN Brain Science Institute". RIKEN. Archived from the original on 5 January 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
- ^ "Author Information: Masao Ito". Pearson Education, FT Press. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ^ "Laureates of the Japan Prize: The 1996 (12th) Japan Prize". The Japan Prize Foundation. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ^ List of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1660 - 2007: A complete listing of all Fellows and Foreign Members since the foundation of the Society, A - J (PDF), The Royal Society, Library and Information Services, July 2007, retrieved 19 December 2012
- ^ "MASAO ITO". Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Washington Office. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ^ Announcement of passing Dr. Masao Ito
External links
- Ito, Masao (2006). "Distinguished Neuroscientists Interviewed: Masao Ito". History of Neuroscience. IBRO (International Brain Research Organization. Retrieved 2012-12-19.[permanent dead link]
- Squirre, Larry R., ed. (1998). the History of Neuroscience in Autobiography (PDF). Vol. 2. Elsevier. ISBN 9780080534053.
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