Akito Arima

Japanese politician (1930–2020)

Akito Arima

Arima in 2011

Born| (1930-09-13)September 13, 1930

Osaka, Japan

Died| December 7, 2020(2020-12-07) (aged 90)
Nationality| Japanese
Alma mater| University of Tokyo
Known for| Interacting boson model
Awards| Nishina Memorial Prize
Humboldt Prize
John Price Wetherill Medal
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Japan Academy Prize
Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
Legion of Honour
Order of the British Empire (KBE)
Person of Cultural Merit
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
Order of Culture
Scientific career
Fields| Physics
Institutions| University of Tokyo
Argonne National Laboratory
Rutgers University
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Hosei University
RIKEN

Akito Arima, KBE (有馬 朗人, Arima Akito, 13 September 1930 - 7 December 2020) was a Japanese nuclear physicist and politician, known for the interacting boson model.[1][2][3][4]

## Personal life[edit]

Arima was born 1930 in Osaka. He studied at the University of Tokyo, where he received his doctorate in 1958. He became a research associate at the Institute for Nuclear Studies in 1956.

Arima died on December 7, 2020 at the age of 90.[5]

## Career[edit]

Arima became a lecturer in 1960, and an associate professor at the Department of Physics in 1964 at the University of Tokyo. He was promoted to a full professor in 1975. He was president of the University of Tokyo during 1989–1993. In 1993, he moved to Hosei University. Since 1993, he has been scientific adviser of the Ministry of Education and from 1993 to 1998 president of RIKEN.[6][7]

He was a visiting professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey (1967–1968), and a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1971–1973). In 1974, he founded the interacting boson model with Francesco Iachello.

In 1998 he entered the Diet of Japan as a member of the House of Councillors for the Liberal Democratic Party. He was Minister of Education until 1999 under the government of Keizo Obuchi. After the cabinet reshuffle in 1999, he served as Director of the Science Museum. From 2000 he was chairman of the Japan Science Foundation.

Arima has served as the Chancellor of Musashi Academy of the Nezu Foundation since 2006.[8][9]

## Awards and honors[edit]

* Nishina Memorial Prize (1978)
* Honorary Professor, the University of Glasgow (1984)
* Humboldt Award (1987)
* Haiku Society Prize for a book of poetry (haiku poems) (1988)[10]
* John Price Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute (1990)
* Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1990)
* Military William Order (1991)
* Honorary Doctor, Drexel University (1992)
* Honorary Professor, the University of Science and Technology, China (1992)
* Honorary Doctor, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan (1992)
* Bonner Prize of the American Physical Society (1993)
* Japan Academy Prize (1993)
* Honorary Doctor, the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1994)
* Honorary Doctor, the University of Groningen (1994)[11]
* Honorary Doctor, the University of Birmingham (1996)
* Grand Officier of the Legion of Honour (1998)
* Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)[12]
* Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) (2002)
* Person of Cultural Merit (2004)
* Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2004)
* Order of Culture (2010)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Arima, Iachello Collective nuclear states as representations of a SU(6) Group, Physical Review Letters 35, 1069–1072 (1975).
2. ^ Arima, Iachello The interacting boson model, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
3. ^ Arima, Iachello Interacting boson model of collective states, Part 1 (the vibrational limit) Annals of Physics 99, 253-317 (1976), Part 2 (the rotational limit) ibid. 111, 201-238 (1978), Part 3 (the transition from SU (5) to SU (3)), ibid. 115, 325-366 (1978), Part 4 (the O(6) limit) ibid. 123, 468-492 (1979).
4. ^ Arima, A.; Iachello, F. (1981). "The Interacting Boson Model". Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. 31: 75–105. Bibcode:1981ARNPS..31...75A. doi:10.1146/annurev.ns.31.120181.000451.
5. ^ 有馬朗人氏死去 元東大学長・文相、90歳 (in Japanese)
6. ^ Biography, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
7. ^ Curriculum Vitae, Japan Science and Technology Agency.
8. ^ 有馬朗人, Akito Arima - Japanese Wikipedia Entry
9. ^ [1], Musashi University Website
10. ^ Arima  Einstein's Century: Akito Arima's Haiku, Brooks Books, 2001.
11. ^ "KVI - Center for Advanced Radiation Technology - History". University of Groningen. 29 March 2019. Archived from the original on 26 July 2017.
12. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 May 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2011.

## External links[edit]

* Media related to Akito Arima at Wikimedia Commons

Political offices

Preceded by

Nobutaka Machimura

|  Minister of Education
1998–1999  | Succeeded by

Hirofumi Nakasone

Preceded by

Yutaka Takeyama

|  Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency
1999  | Succeeded by

Hirofumi Nakasone

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