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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.

          Toyoki Kunitake [de].

        1. Farquhar I was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
        2. Toyoki Kunitake, the Kyoto Prize laureate in the Advanced Technology category.
        3. Donald Keene.
        4. Culture of Order recipients Hiroshi Amano, Toyoki Kunitake, Gyoji Nomiyama, Takashi Negishi, Shuji Nakamura and Takemoto Sumitayu pose for photographs.

          5. 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