Fumiko Yonezawa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fumiko Yonezawa

Japanese theoretical physicist

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1938

Place of Birth: Suita, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 17-Jan-2019

Profession: theoretical physicist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Fumiko Yonezawa (?? ???; 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.She was made President of the Physics Society of Japan in 1996, the first woman to hold the position.
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.