Sumio Iijima - Academy

Academy

  • 2007: Foreign Associate, The National Academy of Sciences
  • 2009: Foreign Member, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
  • 2010: Member, The Japan Academy
  • 2011: Foreign Fellow, Chinese Academy of Science

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