Professor Eiji Saitoh of NanoQuine was selected for the 2022 Japan Academy Prize, announced by the Japan Academy on March 14. Professor Saitoh was recognized for a series of pioneering research in the field of spintronics, including his discovery of the “inverse spin Hall effect,” which corresponds to the reverse process of the spin Hall effect, and his research leading to thermoelectricity, including the spin Seebeck effect. The announcement of the nine recipients of the Japan Academy Prizes, including the duplicate recipient of the Imperial Prize, and the Duke of Edinburgh Prize of the Japan Academy was covered by many media outlets.
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