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The Career of Kiyosi Itô

BIOGRAPHY

1915Born in Mie Prefecture (September 7)
1938Graduation from The Imperial University of Tokyo
1939-1943Statistical Officer, Statistics Bureau of the Cabinet Secretariat
1943-1952Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, The Nagoya Imperial University
1945Doctor of Science, The Imperial University of Tokyo
1952-1979Professor, Kyoto University
1954-1956Fulbright Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
1961-1964Professor, Stanford University
1966-1969Professor, Aarhus University
1969-1975Professor, Cornell University
1976-1979Director, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University
1979-1985Professor, Gakushuin University
1979-2008Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
2008Passed away (November 10)

AWARDS

1977The Asahi Prize, Japan
1978The Imperial Prize and The Japan Academy Prize
1985The Fujiwara Prize, Japan
1987Orders of the Sacred Treasure, Japan and The Wolf Prize, Israel
1998The Kyoto Prize
2003Cultural Merit Prize, Japan
2006Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics
2008Order of Culture, Japan