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Koichi Mizushima (scientist)

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Nationality
  
Japan

Alma mater
  
University of Tokyo

Name
  
Koichi Mizushima


Koichi Mizushima (scientist) NIMS Award Goes to Koichi Mizushima and Akira Yoshino NIMS

Born
  
30 January 1941 (age 83) Tokyo, Japan (
1941-01-30
)

Known for
  
Discovery of LiCoO2 for Li-ion battery

Koichi Mizushima (水島公一, Mizushima Kōichi, born January 30, 1941) is a Japanese researcher known for discovering LiCoO2 and related materials for the Li-ion battery.

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Early career

Koichi Mizushima was trained as a physicist in University of Tokyo and got a PhD in Physics from University of Tokyo. He worked for 13 years in Physics Department at University of Tokyo. In 1977, he was invited by Professor John Goodenough in the Inorganic Chemistry Department at Oxford University for a research scientist. During his stay (1977-1979) in Oxford, Dr. Mizushima, along with John B. Goodenough, discovered LiCoO2 and related compounds now used for the anode of Li-ion battery.

Recognition

  • 1999 Kato Memorial Prize.
  • 2007 Fellow, The Japan Society of Applied Physics.

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