Fumiko Yonezawa

Fumiko Yonezawa (米沢 富美子; 1938 – 17 January 2019) was a Japanese theoretical physicist. She researched semi-conductors and liquid metals.

Fumiko Yonezawa
Yonezawa at the Second International Conference on Research and Communications in Physics
Born1938
Died17 January 2019
NationalityJapanese
Alma materKyoto University, BSc, MSc and PhD
AwardsSaruhashi Prize
Scientific career
InstitutionsKeele University
Keio University

Yonezawa obtained BSc, MSc and Ph. D from Kyoto University, and spent a year researching at Keele University in the United Kingdom during her doctoral studies. She worked with a group of scientists at Keio University, simulating amorphous structures using computers and then creating visualizations of them.[1]

She was made President of the Physics Society of Japan in 1996, the first woman to hold the position.[2] in 1984 she was awarded the Saruhashi Prize, and in 2005 a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for "pioneering theory and computer simulations on amorphous semiconductors and liquid metals." She died on 17 January 2019, aged 80.[3]

Selected publications
  • Yonezawa, Fumiko; Morigaki, Kazuo (1973). "Coherent Potential Approximation". Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement. 53: 1–76. Bibcode:1973PThPS..53....1Y. doi:10.1143/PTPS.53.1.
  • Nosé, Shuichi; Yonezawa, Fumiko (1986). "Isothermal–isobaric computer simulations of melting and crystallization of a Lennard-Jones system". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 84 (3): 1803. Bibcode:1986JChPh..84.1803N. doi:10.1063/1.450427.
  • Yonezawa, F. (1 October 1968). "A Systematic Approach to the Problems of Random Lattices. I: A Self-Contained First-Order Approximation Taking into Account the Exclusion Effect". Progress of Theoretical Physics. 40 (4): 734–757. Bibcode:1968PThPh..40..734Y. doi:10.1143/PTP.40.734.
  • Yonezawa, Fumiko; Matsubara, Takeo (March 1966). "Note on Electronic State of Random Lattice. II". Progress of Theoretical Physics. 35 (3): 357–379. Bibcode:1966PThPh..35..357Y. doi:10.1143/PTP.35.357.

References
  1. Kodate, Naonori; Kodate, Kashiko (2015). Japanese Women in Science and Engineering: History and Policy Change. Routledge. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-317-59505-2.
  2. Kameda, Atseko (2011). Fujimura-Fanselow, Kumiko (ed.). Transforming Japan: How Feminism and Diversity Are Making a Difference. New York: Feminist Press at CUNY. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-55861-700-1.
  3. "日本の女性科学者の草分け、米沢富美子さん死去". YOMIURI ONLINE（読売新聞） (in Japanese). 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2019-10-25.

Further reading
  • Kozai, Yoshihide (2001). My Life: Twenty Japanese Women Scientists. Uchida Rokakuho. pp. 43–.
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