Fumiko Yonezawa

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

Yonezawa graduated from Kyoto University. 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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