The 1st Ei-ichi Asada Award

In Japan, a new award has been established in memory of the late Professor Ei-ichi Asada (1924-2005) in order to encourage promising young scientists in X-ray analysis fields. The joint recipients of the 1st award are: Dr. Kazuhiko Nakano (Osaka Electro Communication Univ., "Development of confocal 3D micro XRF spectrometer-using polycapillary X-ray lenses") and Dr. Yohko Yano (Ritsumeikan Univ., "Application of X-ray multilayer optics for a surface-horizontal X-ray reflectometer"). The ceremony was held during the 42nd Annual Conference on X-Ray Chemical Analysis, Japan at Meiji University, Kawasaki city.