# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shun-ichi-iwasaki
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:58:04.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shun-ichi-iwasaki"
name: "Shun'ichi Iwasaki"
slug: "shun-ichi-iwasaki"
description: "Shun-ichi Iwasaki was a Japanese engineer. He was professor at Tohoku University and then became president and of Tohoku Institute of Technology. He was also a professor at Lanzhou University (China). Iwasaki's pioneering work on perpendicular magnetic recording has been integral to the development of modern hard disk drives."
tagline: "Japanese electrical engineer (1926–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shunichi_Iwasaki_201311.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-08-03"
deathDate: "2025-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.62
  momentum:             1.772430737947979
  historical:           4.815228
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shun%E2%80%99ichi_Iwasaki"
    title: "Shun’ichi Iwasaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shun-ichi_Iwasaki"
    title: "Shun-ichi Iwasaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%A9%E5%B4%8E%E4%BF%8A%E4%B8%80"
    title: "岩崎俊一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EC%99%80%EC%82%AC%ED%82%A4_%EC%8A%8C%EC%9D%B4%EC%B9%98"
    title: "이와사키 슌이치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shun-ichi_Iwasaki"
    title: "Shun-ichi Iwasaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1673179"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump