Akito Arima

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| name = Akito Arima

| image = Dr Arima Lecture Okinawa Keieisha Kyoukai (33202998854) (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Arima in 2011

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|09|13}}

| birth_place = Osaka, Japan

| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|12|7|1930|9|13}}

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| nationality = Japanese

| field = Physics

| work_institutions = University of Tokyo
Argonne National Laboratory
Rutgers University
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Hosei University
RIKEN

| alma_mater = University of Tokyo

| doctoral_advisor =

| known_for = Interacting boson model

| prizes = Nishina Memorial Prize
Humboldt Prize
John Price Wetherill Medal
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Japan Academy Prize
Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
Legion of Honour
Order of the British Empire (KBE)
Person of Cultural Merit
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
Order of Culture

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{{Nihongo|Akito Arima, KBE|有馬朗人|Arima Akito|13 September 1930 – 7 December 2020}} was a Japanese nuclear physicist, politician, and haiku poet, known for the interacting boson model.Arima, Iachello Collective nuclear states as representations of a SU(6) Group, Physical Review Letters 35, 1069–1072 (1975).Arima, Iachello The interacting boson model, Cambridge University Press, 1987.Arima, Iachello Interacting boson model of collective states, Part 1 (the vibrational limit) Annals of Physics 99, 253-317 (1976), Part 2 (the rotational limit) ibid. 111, 201-238 (1978), Part 3 (the transition from SU (5) to SU (3)), ibid. 115, 325-366 (1978), Part 4 (the O(6) limit) ibid. 123, 468-492 (1979).{{cite journal|doi=10.1146/annurev.ns.31.120181.000451| doi-access=free| title=The Interacting Boson Model| year=1981| last1=Arima| first1=A.| last2=Iachello| first2=F.| journal=Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science| volume=31| pages=75–105| bibcode=1981ARNPS..31...75A}}

Early life and career

Arima was born 1930 in Osaka. He studied at the University of Tokyo, where he received his doctorate in 1958. He became a research associate at the Institute for Nuclear Studies in 1956.

Arima became a lecturer in 1960, and an associate professor at the Department of Physics in 1964 at the University of Tokyo. He was promoted to a full professor in 1975. He was president of the University of Tokyo during 1989–1993. In 1993, he moved to Hosei University. Since 1993, he has been scientific adviser of the Ministry of Education and from 1993 to 1998 president of RIKEN.[http://www.jspsusa.org/FORUM1997/bio.arima.html Biography], Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.[http://www.jst.go.jp/astf/document/13cv.pdf Curriculum Vitae] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118224451/http://www.jst.go.jp/astf/document/13cv.pdf |date=2017-11-18 }}, Japan Science and Technology Agency.

He was a visiting professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey (1967–1968), and a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1971–1973). In 1974, he founded the interacting boson model with Francesco Iachello.

In 1998 he entered the Diet of Japan as a member of the House of Councillors for the Liberal Democratic Party. He was Minister of Education until 1999 under the government of Keizo Obuchi. After the cabinet reshuffle in 1999, he served as Director of the Science Museum. From 2000 he was chairman of the Japan Science Foundation.

Arima has served as the Chancellor of Musashi Academy of the Nezu Foundation since 2006.有馬朗人, Akito Arima - Japanese Wikipedia Entry[http://www.musashi.ac.jp/english/about/president.html], Musashi University Website

Death

Arima died from heart failure on December 7, 2020, at the age of 90.[https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQODG074HG0X01C20A2000000 有馬朗人氏死去　元東大学長・文相、90歳] {{in lang|ja}} He was posthumously promoted to the court rank of Senior Third Rank (shosanmi or ōkimi no tsunokurai), which is usually awarded to high-ranking politicians and prominent scholars in post-war Japan.『官報』令和3年1月13日第410号 7頁

Awards and honors

Nishina Memorial Prize (1978)
Honorary Professor, the University of Glasgow (1984)
Humboldt Award (1987)
Haiku Society Prize for a book of poetry (haiku poems) (1988)Arima [http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/translations/arimahaiku.html Einstein's Century: Akito Arima's Haiku], Brooks Books, 2001.
John Price Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute (1990)
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1990)
Military William Order (1991)
Honorary Doctor, Drexel University (1992)
Honorary Professor, the University of Science and Technology, China (1992)
Honorary Doctor, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan (1992)
Bonner Prize of the American Physical Society (1993)
Japan Academy Prize (1993)
Honorary Doctor, the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1994)
Honorary Doctor, the University of Groningen (1994){{cite web|author= |url=https://www.rug.nl/kvi-cart/organization/history?lang=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726025140/https://www.rug.nl/kvi-cart/organization/history?lang=en |title=KVI - Center for Advanced Radiation Technology - History |publisher=University of Groningen |date=29 March 2019 |archive-date=26 July 2017}}
Honorary Doctor, the University of Birmingham (1996)
Grand Officier of the Legion of Honour (1998)
Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999){{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=22 April 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110510021801/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf| archive-date= 10 May 2011 | url-status= live}}
Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) (2002)
Person of Cultural Merit (2004)
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2004)
Order of Culture (2010)
Dakotsu Prize (2018)