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
