Eiji Osawa

Eiji Osawa (Japanese: 大澤 映二, Hepburn: Ōsawa Eiji, born June 9, 1935 in Toyama, Japan)^[1] is a former professor of computational chemistry, noted for his prediction of the C₆₀ molecule in 1970.^[2][3]

Osawa received his Master's of Engineering in chemistry from Kyoto University's Department of Industrial Chemistry and then became an engineer at Teijin Co., Ltd. In 1964, he returned to Kyoto University and earned a Doctorate of Engineering in chemistry under Professor M. Yoshida. After three years of postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin, Princeton University, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, in 1970 he became an assistant professor at Hokkaido University. In 1990, Osawa became a full professor at Toyahashi University of Technology, where he retired in 2001. Upon his retirement, assisted by Futaba, Co., Ltd., headquartered in Chiba, Osawa started the research and development company Nano-Carbon Research Institute, Ltd.^{[citation needed]}