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Sumio Iijima

Japanese physicist, chemist, and nanotechnologist (born 1939)

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    Born 1939
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-07-17

Sumio Iijima is a Japanese physicist and inventor, often cited for his discovery of carbon nanotubes. Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his "invention", Iijima's 1991 paper generated unprecedented interest in the carbon nanostructures and has since fueled intense research in the area of nanotechnology.

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