A class of their own

摘要

"Dr Kitano is always ready to invest in apparently absurd ideas.... He actively seeks to gain international exposure for his young researchers by making them corresponding authors on his papers.... His distinctive mentoring style-decisiveness and respect for the individual-comes from the fact that he is not a pure product of the Japanese system."rn"The thing that most surprised me when I joined the Oosawa group was that everybody called him 'Oosawa-san' [rather than the much more formal 'Oosawa-sensei' ]. Also, rather than sitting in an office... he walked around the lab collaring people and talking with them."