1976:Bertram Eugene Warren Diffraction Physics Award
(The American Crystallography Society)
2002:J.C.McGroddy Prize for New Materials
(American Physical Society, USA)
2002:Agilent Europhysics Prize
(European Physical Society)
2002:Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
(The Franklin Institute, USA)
2004:The Society’s Medal of Achievement in Carbon Science and Technology
(The American Carbon Society, USA)
2005:Distinguished Scientist Award, Physical Sciences
(Microscopy Society of America, USA)
2006:The John M. Cowley Medal 2006
(The International Federation of Societies for Microscopy)
2007:Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography 2007
(Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
2007:2007 Balzan Prize for Nanoscience
(International Balzan Prize Foundation, Italy)
2008:The 2008 Plueddemann Award
(Case Western University, USA)
2008:The First Richard E. Smalley Research Award
(The Electrochemical Society, USA)
2008:The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience 2008
(The Kavli Foundation, Norway)
2008:The Prince of Asturias Award for Technical Scientific Research 2008
(The Prince of Asturias Foundation, Spain)
2008:Economist Innovation Awards “No Boundaries”
(The Economist, UK)
2011:China Nano Award
(China Nano 2011, China)
2012:Distinguished Service Award
(Miami 2012 Winter Symposium, USA)
1980:Seto Award
(The Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy)
1985:The Crystallographic Society of Japan Award
(The Crystallographic Society of Japan)
1985:Nishina Memorial Award
(The Nishina Memorial Foundation, Japan)
1986:Minister Award
(The Agency of Science and Technology, Japan)
1986:Best Paper Award
(The Japan Society for Applied Physics)
1989:Ban Memorial Award
(The Ban Memorial Committee, Japan)
1997:Asahi Award
(The Asahi Shinbun Cultural Foundation, Japan)
1999:Tsukuba Prize
(The Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki, Japan)
2001:Ishikawa Carbon Award
(Ishikawa Carbon Science and Technology Promotion Foundation, Japan)
2002:Chunichi Bunka Award
(Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd., Japan)
2002:The Mukai Award
(Tokyo Ohka Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology, Japan)
2002:Japan Academy Award and Imperial Award
(The Japan Academy)
2003:The JSAP Outstanding Achievement Award
(The Japan Society of Applied Physics)
2003:Person of Cultural Merits
2004:Honda Frontier Award
(Honda Memorial Foundation, Japan)
2007:Fujihara Award
(The Fujihara Foundation of Science, Japan)
2009:Order of Cultural Merits
2003:Van Horn Lecture
(Case Western Reserve University, USA)
2007:Bodo von Borries Lecture 2007
(Universitat Tubingen)
2008:DOW Lecture
(Northwestern University, USA)
2008:Nagoya University Lecture
(Nagoya University, Japan)
2008:W.H. Bragg Lecture 2008
(University College London, UK)
2008:George Pimentel Memorial Lecture
(U.C. Berkeley, USA)
2009:Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture
(Tsinghua University, China)
2010:Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Speaker
(MIT, USA)
2010:William Spitzer Lecture
(University of Southern California, USA)
2011:The 2011 Evans Lecture
(The Ohio State University, USA)
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