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Yukihiro Ozaki Receives the Raman Lifetime Award at ICORS 2026
Author(s)Jerome Workman, Jr.
Yukihiro Ozaki of Kwansei Gakuin University received the Raman Lifetime Award at ICORS 2026 in Istanbul for outstanding lifetime contributions to Raman spectroscopy.
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Yukihiro Ozaki, professor emeritus at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan, has received the Raman Lifetime Award. The plaque recognizes his "outstanding lifetime contributions to Raman spectroscopy." The award was presented at an evening ceremony during ICORS 2026, the 29th International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, held in Istanbul, Türkiye, from 23–27 August 2026.
"I am so happy to receive this extraordinarily prestigious award," Ozaki said.
The Raman Lifetime Award was established in 2014 to honor leading scientists for their lifetime achievement in Raman spectroscopy. Past recipients include Wolfgang Kiefer, Shulin Zhang, and Sanford Asher.
Ozaki has spent more than four decades on vibrational spectroscopy, including Raman, infrared, near-infrared, and far-ultraviolet methods. He is regarded as a pioneer of medical Raman spectroscopy. His work runs from early studies of gallstones and cancer tissue to the nondestructive diagnosis of early-stage esophageal cancer. He has also made major contributions to surface- and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS and TERS) and to two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy. He has co-authored more than 1,100 publications.
Ozaki joined Kwansei Gakuin University in 1989 and served as its vice president from 2013 to 2018. He is now also a guest professor at Kobe University and a guest principal researcher at RIKEN, and he served on the ICORS Steering Committee from 2012 to 2018.
His many earlier honors include the Bomem-Michelson Award, the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, the Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy, the Karl Norris Award, and the Lippincott Award. In Japan he has received the Medal with Purple Ribbon and the Order of the Sacred Treasure.
Spectroscopy congratulates Professor Ozaki on this well-deserved recognition.
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