Professor Hidetoshi Katori elected the membership of the Japan Academy

On 12th December 2023, Professor Hidetoshi Katori, Department of Applied Physics, elected the membership of the Japan Academy at the 1174th General Meeting.

The membership of the Japan Academy
Operated under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, The Japan Academy (Nippon Gakushi-in) is an organization that accords special recognition to researchers with the most eminent records of academic and scientific achievement. The membership of the Japan Academy is awarded to scientists with outstanding academic achievements.

About awarded research
Professor Katori invented and demonstrated a novel optical lattice clock that has an accuracy of 18 digits, which is approximately 1000 times more accurate than the currently used atomic clocks, by observing a large number of atoms trapped in an optical lattice created by the standing wave of light to reduce the Doppler effect and the quantum noise. 

Your impression & future plan
It is a great honor for me to be selected as a member of the Japan Academy. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my collaborators, students, and mentors with whom I developed the research together. I will continue to devote myself to the development of quantum electronics.

About the Japan Academy: https://www.japan-acad.go.jp/en/index.html