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Makoto Fujita (chemist)

Makoto Fujita (chemist) 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 Makoto Fujita (chemist) rather than just read about it. In short: Makoto Fujita (藤田誠, Fujita Makoto) is a Japanese chemist who specializes in supramolecular coordination chemistry. He is the Distinguished Professor at the University of Tokyo and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).

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Reference excerpt

Makoto Fujita (藤田誠, Fujita Makoto) is a Japanese chemist who specializes in supramolecular coordination chemistry. He is the Distinguished Professor at the University of Tokyo and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).

Career

He is a professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry at the University of Tokyo. He has published extensively on the multicomponent assembly of large coordination cages. Compounds designed and prepared in his research group are variously described as three-dimensional synthetic receptors, coordination assemblies, molecular paneling, molecular flasks, crystalline sponges, and coordination capsules. He shared the 2018 Wolf Prize in Chemistry with Omar Yaghi "for conceiving metal-directed assembly principles leading to large highly porous complexes". Hideki Shirakawa predicted in 2014 that Fujita would win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Recognition

1994 – Progress Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan 2000 – Division Award of Chemical Society of Japan (Organic Chemistry) 2001 – Japan IBM Science Prize 2009 – The Commendation for Science and Technology by the MEXT Prizes for Science and Technology 2010 – The 7th Leo Esaki Prize 2010 – Thomson Reuters Research Front Award 2011 – 3M Lectureship Award (The University of British Columbia) 2012 – Kharasch Lecturers (The University of Chicago) 2013 – Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award 2013 – The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award 2013 – Merck-Karl Pfister Visiting Professorship (MIT Lectureship award) 2014 – Medal with Purple Ribbon 2014 – Fred Basolo Medal (Northwestern University) 2018 – Wolf Prize in Chemistry 2019 – Paul Karrer Gold Medal 2019 and 2020 – Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist 2020 – Clarivate Citation Laureate 2020 – Chunichi Culture Award 2023 – Asahi Prize 2025 - Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).

References

External links

FUJITA, Makoto | Research | Institute for Molecular Science Archived 30 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Makoto Fujita (chemist)

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Makoto Fujita (chemist) 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 Makoto Fujita (chemist)

In research: Makoto Fujita (chemist) 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 Makoto Fujita (chemist) 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: Makoto Fujita (chemist) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1957 births, Academic staff of the University of Tokyo, Inorganic chemists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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