Born in Japan in 1948, FURUKAWA Yasu obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D. in the History of Science from the University of Oklahoma in the United States in 1983. He held the position of Professor of History of Science at Tokyo Denki University and then at Nihon University. He served as president of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry from 2011 to 2016. Currently, he is a visiting fellow at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Japan. In 2018, he was awarded the John and Martha Morris Award from the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry in the UK. In 2022 he received the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, and in 2024 the History of Science Society of Japan’s Special Award.
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