PRESIDENT OBAMA’S INAUGURATION SPEECH DELIGHTED SCIENTISTS WHEN HE STATED, “WE WILL restore science to its rightful place.” But he went on: “What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility.... This is the price and the promise of citizenship.” For scientists, one oftenoverlooked responsibility is explaining their work to people. This is not an unreasonable price for receiving public f...

4.1 Members Toshiyuki Maeda (Team Leader) Masatomo Hashimoto (Research Scientist) Peter Bryzgalov (Research Scientist) Itaru Kitayama (Technical Staff I) Yoshiki Nishikawa (Visiting Scientist, University of Tokyo) Yves Caniou (Visiting Scientist, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) Judit Gimenez (Visiting Scientist, Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Sameer Shende (Visiting Scientist, University of...

Yuji Sugita (Team Leader (Concurrent))*, ** Osamu Miyashita (Senior Research Scientist) Jaewoon Jung (Research Scientist) Chigusa Kobayashi (Research Scientist) Yasuhiro Matsunaga (Research Scientist) Hiromi Kano (Assistant) Takaharu Mori (Research Scientist (Concurrent))** Isseki Yu (Research Scientist (Concurrent))** Raimondas Galvelis (Postdoctoral Researcher (Concurrent))** Takao Yoda (Visi...

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries visual and verbal images of the scientist were many and varied. Caricaturists, cartoonists, artists, and writers produced a diverse range of stereotypic figures: diabolical madmen, distinguished professors, harmless eccentrics, learned buffoons, and fashionable dilettantes. Naturalists in the field among flora and fauna were often pictured, as were...

8.1 Members Seiji Yunoki (Team Leader) Yuichi Otsuka (Research Scientist) Shigetoshi Sota (Research Scientist) Shixun Zhang (Postdoctoral Researcher) Ahmad Ranjbar (Postdoctoral Researcher) James S. M. Anderson (Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher) Kazuhiro Seki (Special Postdoctoral Researcher, joint) Sandro Sorella (Senior Visiting Scientist) Takami Tohyama (Senior Visiting Scientist) Yutaka Imam...