Riken named discoverer of atomic element 113, wins naming right

Riken named discoverer of atomic element 113, wins naming right

Kosuke Morita, the leader of a team of researchers at the Riken institute, announces at a press conference at the institute in Wako, northwest of Tokyo, on Dec. 31, 2015, that the institute has been recognized by an international organization as the discoverer of the atomic element 113 and has been handed its naming right. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Riken named discoverer of atomic element 113, wins naming right

Riken named discoverer of atomic element 113, wins naming right

Researchers at the Riken institute announce at a press conference at the institute in Wako, northwest of Tokyo, on Dec. 31, 2015, that the institute has been recognized by an international organization as the discoverer of the atomic element 113 and has been handed its naming right. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Riken named discoverer of atomic element 113, wins naming right

Riken named discoverer of atomic element 113, wins naming right

Kosuke Morita, the leader of a team of researchers at the Riken institute, smiles during a press conference at the institute in Wako, northwest of Tokyo, on Dec. 31, 2015, held to announce that the institute has been recognized by an international organization as the discoverer of the atomic element 113 and has been handed its naming right. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Riken named discoverer of atomic element 113, wins naming right

Riken named discoverer of atomic element 113, wins naming right

Photo taken in August 2015 shows an accelerator at the Riken institute in Wako, northwest of Tokyo, which was used to artificially synthesize the atomic element 113. The institute said Dec. 31 it has been recognized by an international organization as the discoverer of the element and has been handed its naming right. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ritual bronze bell discoverer points at location

Ritual bronze bell discoverer points at location

Toru Nishida, deputy plant manager of stone processing firm Matsumoto Sangyo Inc., points at the sand mound where seven ritual bronze bells from the Yayoi period (around the third century B.C. to third century A.D.) have been discovered lately, in Minamiawaji, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 19, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Nobel Prize winner Omura talks about bacteriologist Kitasato

Nobel Prize winner Omura talks about bacteriologist Kitasato

Photo taken in Tokyo on April 9, 2019, shows Satoshi Omura, professor emeritus at Kitasato University and 2015 Nobel laureate in medicine, posing in front of a bronze statue of the private university's founder Shibasaburo Kitasato, a bacteriologist known as a co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in the 19th century. Kitasato, nominated for the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901, will be featured on Japan's new 1,000 yen bill set for introduction in fiscal 2024. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Nobel Prize winner Omura talks about bacteriologist Kitasato

Nobel Prize winner Omura talks about bacteriologist Kitasato

Photo taken in Tokyo on April 9, 2019, shows Satoshi Omura, professor emeritus at Kitasato University and 2015 Nobel laureate in medicine, speaking about the private university's founder Shibasaburo Kitasato, a bacteriologist known as a co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in the 19th century. Kitasato, nominated for the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901, will be featured on Japan's new 1,000 yen bill set for introduction in fiscal 2024. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo