chemistry

Kimito Funatsu

Kimito Funatsu is a chemistry topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Kimito Funatsu rather than just read about it. In short: Kimito Funatsu (船津公人, Funatsu Kimito; born December 3, 1955) is a Japanese chemist specializing in chemoinformatics and data-driven chemistry, a professor emeritus at University of Tokyo, and the research director of the Data Science Center at Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Biography He graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School in 1974 and from Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Kyu…

Key takeaways

Kimito Funatsu belongs to chemistry; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Kimito Funatsu to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Kimito Funatsu from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Kimito Funatsu (船津公人, Funatsu Kimito; born December 3, 1955) is a Japanese chemist specializing in chemoinformatics and data-driven chemistry, a professor emeritus at University of Tokyo, and the research director of the Data Science Center at Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

Biography He graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School in 1974 and from Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Kyushu University in 1978. He completed Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University and obtained a doctorate in science in 1983. After he served as an associate professor at Toyohashi University of Technology, he became a professor at Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 2004. He concurrently holds the posts of a professor and the research director of the Data Science Center at Nara Institute of Science and Technology from 2017. He was also invited as visiting professor at University of Strasbourg in France in 2011. The Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society gave him the Herman Skolnik Award in 2019 for his contributions to structure elucidation, de novo structure generation and applications of cheminformatics methods to materials design and chemical process control. He also received the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (日本化学会学術賞) for 2020. In 2021, he retired from University of Tokyo at mandatory age and was given the title of professor emeritus.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Kimito Funatsu

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Kimito Funatsu claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In chemistry, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Kimito Funatsu before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Kimito Funatsu ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Kimito Funatsu

In research: Kimito Funatsu appears in chemistry research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Kimito Funatsu in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Kimito Funatsu is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1955 births, 20th-century Japanese chemists, 21st-century Japanese chemists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Kimito Funatsu outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Kimito Funatsu in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Kimito Funatsu means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Kimito Funatsu out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Kimito Funatsu in simple terms?

Why does Kimito Funatsu matter?

Because it connects several chemistry ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Kimito Funatsu?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Kimito Funatsu.