Professor Eiji Shamoto of Nagoya University's Graduate School of Engineering has been selected to receive the 21st Century Encouragement of Invention Prize for the invention of an ultrasonic elliptical vibration cutting technology, and Nagoya University President Seiichi Matsuo has been selected to receive the 21st Century Invention Contribution Prize, according to the announcement of the winners of the 2019 National Invention Awards by the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation on May 23, 2019.
Launched in 1919, the National Invention Awards are designed to praise individuals who have completed an outstanding invention full of originality and those who have contributed to the implementation of an invention as well as to its instruction, encouragement, or cultivation, with the aim of contributing to the advancement of science and technology and industrial growth.
Professor Shamoto and his wife, as well as Nagoya University Trustee Masahide Takahashi on behalf of President Matsuo, attended the award ceremony in Tokyo on June 10, 2019.
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Prof. Shamoto and Trustee Takahashi after the ceremony