Shun-ichi Iwasaki

Shun-ichi Iwasaki
Shun-ichi Iwasaki
	Iwasaki in 2013
Born	August 3, 1926
Nationality	Japanese
Education	Tohoku University
Known for	Perpendicular Magnetic Recording
Awards	IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (1989); Japan Prize (2010) ; Order of Culture 文化勲章 2013 ; Benjamin Franklin Medal (2014);
	Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering;
Institutions	Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo; Tohoku University; Tohoku Institute of Technology
Notable students	Yoshihisa Nakamura, Kazuhiro Ouchi, Hiroaki Muraoka

Shun-ichi Iwasaki (岩崎　俊一, Iwasaki Shun’ichi; born August 3, 1926) is a Japanese engineer. He was professor at Tohoku University and then became president and of Tohoku Institute of Technology. He was also a professor at Lanzhou University (China). Iwasaki's pioneering work on perpendicular magnetic recording has been integral to the development of modern hard disk drives.

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