Hideo Hosono

is a Japanese material scientist most known for the discovery of iron-based superconductors.

Hosono, Hideki Shirakawa and Yoshinori Ohsumi are the three keynote speakers at the Institute of Integrated Research (IIR) founding lecture at the Institute of Science Tokyo.

Early life and education Hosono was born in September 1953 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, one of the satellite cities of Tokyo. Dropped out of high school (National Institute of Technology, Tokyo College) in 1974, graduated from the Department of Industrial Chemistry of Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU) in 1977, and obtained a doctorate in engineering from TMU in 1982.

Career and research

Awards and honors 2009 – Bernd T. Matthias Prize for Superconductivity 2009 – Medal of Honor (Purple Ribbon) 2012 – Nishina Memorial Prize 2013 – Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates 2015 – Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy 2016 – Japan Prize 2017 – Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society 2018 – Materials Research Society's Von Hippel Award 2019 - Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist 2022 – Eduard Rhein Technology Award

Selected publications According to the Web of Science, Hideo Hosono has co-authored 5 articles with more than 1000 citations each (as of September 2019):