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Toyoki Kunitake, the Kyoto Prize laureate in the Advanced Technology category....
Toyoki Kunitake (Kyushu University)
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Toyoki Kunitake - Prof. of Chemistry Institute of advanced study, Kyushu University - was awarded an Honoris Causa on the 4th of May 2017.
Toyoki Kunitake is the President of Kitakyushu Foundation for the advancement of industry, science and technology.
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Toyoki Kunitake received his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1962, and them completed a post-doc at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with Prof. Carl G. Neimann.
Research, collaboration, distinctions
A pioneer within the domain of material sciences, Prof.
Kunitake is a researcher renowned throughout the world for his work in supramolecular chemistry. He was the first scientist to demonstrate that finely designed synthetic amphiphilic molecules spontaneously form bilayer membranes - a basic structure common to the biological membranes of living cells.
Prof. Kunitake’s innovative research helped clarify this univers