The 113th element was named Nihonium, The 48th Seiun Award: Free Nomination, The Federation of Science Fiction Fan Groups of Japan
Winner: Element 113 Research Group led by Group Director Kosuke Morita
Apr 2017
HAPPY NEWS PERSON 2016 Special Awards, The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association
Winner: Research Group for Superheavy Element, RIKEN
URL:http://www.yondoku.com/happynews/prize/
Feb 2017
The four papers related to the synthesis of the 113th element in JPSJ, Special Commendation: Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan, The Physical Society of Japan
Winner: Research Group for the 113th Element (Leader: Kosuke Morita)
Jan 2017
Discovery and naming of nihonium (Nh) for the 113th element, The Asahi prize, the Asahi Shinbun foundation
M. Rosenbusch, Y. Ito, P. Schury, M. Wada, D. Kaji, K. Morimoto, H. Haba, S. Kimura, H. Koura, M. MacCormick, H. Miyatake, J. Y. Moon, K. Morita, I. Murray, T. Niwase, A. Ozawa, M. Reponen, A. Takamine, T. Tanaka, and H. Wollnik
Physical Review C 97 064306-1-8 Jun 2018 [Refereed]
Y. Ito, P. Schury, M. Wada, F. Arai, H. Haba, Y. Hirayama, S. Ishizawa, D. Kaji, S. Kimura, H. Koura M. MacCormick, H. Miyatake, J.Y. Moon, K. Morimoto, K. Morita, M. Mukai, I. Murray, T. Niwase, K. Okada, A. Ozawa, M. Rosenbusch, A. Takamine, T. Tanaka, Y.X. Watanabe, H. Wollnik, and S. Yamaki
P. Schury, M. Wada, Y. Ito, D. Kaji, H. Haba, Y. Hirayama, S. Kimura, H. Koura, M. MacCormick, H. Miyatake, J.Y. Moon, K. Morimoto, K. Morita, I. Murray, A. Ozawa, M. Rosenbusch, M. Reponen, A. Takamine, T. Tanaka, Y.X. Watanabe, H. Wollnik
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 407 160-165 Jun 2017 [Refereed]
HIroyuki Koura (Part:Contributor, Issue 1, Nuclear physics, plasma physics and nuclear fusion: Atomic Mass, the Weiszacker-Bethe type semi-empirical mass formula, Current status of nuclear mass formula, Nuclear decay, Alpha-decay, Positron and muon)
Maruzen Publishing Co., LTD Dec 2014 ISBN:ISBN978-4-621-08874-6
Litteracy
T. Tachibana, K. Nakagawa, H. Motosugi, Y. Yamanaka, H. Koura, T. Kagemori, T. Kimoto, M. Takayama and T. Handa (Part:Contributor, Programming: Introduction to C)
Nihon Bunkyou Shuppan Co., Ltd. Oct 2000 ISBN:ISBN4-536-40090-7
Impact of Exotic Nuclear Structure on Explosive Nucleosynthesis 24 Nov 2017 International Research Center for Nuclei and Particles in the Cosmos (IRCNPC) and International Research Center for Big Bang Cosmology and Element Genesis (IRCBBC) in Beihang University (BUAA).
Island of Stability of Super Heavy Nuclei[Invited]
Hiroyuki Koura
Mar 2017 The Physical Society of Japan
Improvement of Gross Theory of Beta-decay and its Application to Nuclear Data[Invited]
Hiroyuki Koura
International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Sept. 11-16, (Bruges, Belgium) Sep 2016
[Lecturer, Demonstrator] Tsukuba Science Edge 2018 Competition Secretariat Tsukuba Science Edge 2019 (Tsukuba International Congress Center) 23 Mar 2019
In 2016, a new element, “Nihonium,” was put into the periodic table of elements as the 113th element. Nihonium is named after “Nihon,” one of the way to say “Japan,” in Japanese and literally means “the land of rising sun.” The name is proposed t...
