IDA PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF EMERITUS PROFESSOR SHOJI KIMURA, 1935–2020
Prof. Shoji Kimura, former emeritus professor of University of Tokyo and former president of Membrane Society of Japan, passed away on 21, May 2020 at the age of 85. Prof. Kimura was really a pioneer and internationally renowned scholar in both areas of theory and engineering of desalination and water reuse technology. Over the course of his career, he acted as Prof. of University of Tokyo and the president of Membrane Society of Japan, contributing to the development and spread of membrane transport of desalination technology, and also Japanese strong technologies such as distillation and membrane, from Japan to the global world. After the graduating from University of Tokyo in 1962, completing PhD degrees in chemical engineering at the school of engineering, he went to National Research Council of Canada at Ottawa in 1965 as post doctorate fellowship under the supervision of Prof. Dr. S. Sourirajan, to collaborate on reverse osmosis especially on the membrane transport for two years.
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