Financial Post: Chiaki Mukai and Masanori Sugiyama Appointed as External Directors of Axelspace Holdings
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Chiaki Mukai
Chiaki Mukai is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights, and the first Asian woman in space. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1994, which was a Spacelab mission. Her second spaceflight was STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. In tota…
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science · Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut (born 1952) · astronaut · physician · surgeon · also Chiaki Mukai, Chiaki Naito, Mukai
Born 6 May 1952 · Q234306
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2015).
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Became Vice President of the Tokyo University of Science
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2009· 1 entry
Mukai was a visiting lecturer at the International Space University
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2007· 1 entry
Fuji Television released a special episode of its program A Woman's Biography
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2004· 1 entry
Published “Surface-plasmon-enhanced light emitters based on InGaN quantum wells” in Nature Materials — cited 1,390 times.
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2003· 2 entries
NASDA merged with ISAS (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science) and NAL (National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan) and was renamed Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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Published “The activity of non-basal slip systems and dynamic recovery at room temperature in fine-grained AZ31B magnesium alloys” in Acta Materialia — cited 1,320 times.
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation (1999).
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Was promoted to a visiting professor of the university
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1994· 1 entry
Published “Candela-class high-brightness InGaN/AlGaN double-heterostructure blue-light-emitting diodes” in Applied Physics Letters — cited 3,473 times.
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1992· 1 entry
“Before men and women,we are human beings.That is common sense. If you want to do something, go for it.”
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1985· 1 entry
Mukai was selected as one of three Japanese Payload Specialist candidates for the First Material Processing Test (Spacelab-J) which flew aboard STS-47
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1977· 1 entry
Resident in General Surgery, Keio University Hospital, Tokyo (1977–1978)
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-05-06.
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