Dokiya Memorial International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

摘要

MASAYUKI DOKIYA, an internationally renowned researcher, passed away on June 25, 2003 in Yokohama, Japan at the age of 64, after a struggle against pancreatic cancer for almost ten years. Dr. Dokiya was an advocate of highly efficient and environmentally friendly solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) for power generation. To commemorate the first anniversary of his death and to recognize his many and varied contributions to solid oxide fuel cell technology, a Dokiya Memorial International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells was organized by the SOFC Society of Japan in Tokyo, Japan on June 24-25, 2004. Chairing the symposium were Subhash C. Singhal of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA) and Harumi Yokokawa of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. Dr. Dokiya, born in Osaka, Japan on January 1, 1939, obtained a bachelor's degree in 1963 and a master's degree in 1965 in applied chemistry from the University of Tokyo. Immediately after that, he joined the Governmental Research Institute for Chemical Investigation (which later became the National Chemical Laboratory for Industry) in Tsukuba, Japan. From August 1968 to January 1970, he was a guest researcher at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.