Physicist Tonomura dies at 70

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2006 shows Japanese physicist Akira Tonomura. A fellow at electronics giant Hitachi Ltd. tipped as a future Nobel Prize winner for years, Tonomura died of pancreatic cancer early on May 2, 2012, at a hospital in Hidaka, Saitama Prefecture. He was 70. Tonomura was known for developing electron holography for observing microscopic structures in matter using the wave nature of electrons and confirming the so-called Aharonov-Bohm effect, the existence of which had long been disputed among physicists. (Kyodo)

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