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•Platinum Metals Rev., 2011, 55, (2)•
Fig. 1. The superconducting ring cyclotron (SRC) in the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) at the
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science where the newest isotopes of palladium, rhodium
and ruthenium were discovered (65) (Copyright 2010 RIKEN)
Dr Toshiyuki Kubo
Fig. 2. Dr Toshiyuki Kubo
(Copyright 2010 RIKEN)
Toshiyuki Kubo is the team leader of the Research Group at RIKEN.
He was born in Tochigi, Japan, in 1956. He received his BS degree
in Physics from The University of Tokyo in 1978, and his PhD
degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1985. He joined
RIKEN as an Assistant Research Scientist in 1980, and was promoted
to Research Scientist in 1985 and to Senior Research Scientist
in 1992. He spent time at the National Superconducting Cyclotron
Laboratory of Michigan State University in the USA as a visiting
physicist from 1992 to 1994. In 2001, he became the team leader for
the in-flight separator, dubbed ‘BigRIPS’, which analyses the fragments
produced in the RIBF. He was promoted to Group Director
of the Research Instruments Group at the RIKEN Nishina Center in
2007. He is in charge of the design, construction, development and
operation of major research instruments, as well as related infrastructure
and equipment, at the RIKEN Nishina Center. His current
research focuses on the production of rare isotope beams, in-flight
separator issues, and the structure and reactions of exotic nuclei.
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