Hisashi Iwase

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Session 1: Was Japan Truly a Loser in 20th-Century Biotechnology?

2024.07.18
【Hisashi Iwase】 At the end of the 20th century, science and technology made immeasurable strides in the field of life sciences. The declaration of the completion of the Human Genome Project was hailed as a monumental ach… 黒澤伸行

The Good Old America (6)

2025.01.15
Have you ever heard of Buena Vista Social Club? This name became famous thanks to an album created in 1997, born out of a session between American musician Ry Cood… 黒澤伸行

The Good Old America (5)

2024.07.22
My first visit to North America was in 1972. During my childhood in Tokyo, I would often peer through the fences at Washington Heights (now Yoyogi Park) to glimpse the U.S. m… 黒澤伸行

The Good Old America (4)

2024.07.15
Upon landing at Nashville Airport (Tennessee) on a domestic flight from Boston, passengers quickly stood up as soon as the seatbelt sign was turned off. Adjusting my watch to Central Time, an hour behind Eastern Time, I ove… 黒澤伸行

The Good Old America (3)

2024.07.08
In the 1960s, several secondhand clothing stores along Omotesando and Aoyama sold surplus U.S. military jeans and apparel. Even as an elementary school student, I wore Levi’s and LEE jeans that my mother h… 黒澤伸行

The Good Old America (2)

2024.07.01
The second business trip to the United States started off in the worst possible way. My flight was delayed by three hours in Los Angeles, causing me to miss my connection. As a result, I had to take a series of overnight… 黒澤伸行

The Good Old America (1)

2024.07.01
The first time I traveled to the US for work was around 1984, during PITTCON. It was just before the release of the HPLC photodiode array detector. Atlantic City was a town of boardwalks and casinos. I found bre… 黒澤伸行

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The Untold Story of HPLC: Why Did Dr. James L. Waters Create HPLC?

2024.07.01
From the late 1970s to the 1980s, the HPLC market expanded significantly as a method for low-molecular-weight separation and measurem… 黒澤伸行

Naming of HPLC Columns

2024.07.01
Since the introduction of rigid gels for reversed-phase partitioning in the 1970s, analytical performance for compounds in polar solutions improved significantly. This led to a historic surge in demand for HPLC, parti… 黒澤伸行

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Powers of 10/ Coffee breake 02

2024.08.01
I have always wondered about the meaning of the number “10.” Humanity relies on the decimal system for all calculations, but this method of calculation is a representation of numbers in the analog world. Meanwhile,… 黒澤伸行

Session 1: Was Japan Truly a Loser in 20th-Century Biotechnology?

The Good Old America (6)

The Good Old America (5)

The Good Old America (4)

The Good Old America (3)

The Good Old America (2)

The Good Old America (1)

The Untold Story of HPLC: Why Did Dr. James L. Waters Create HPLC?

Naming of HPLC Columns

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Hisashi Iwase

Session 1: Was Japan Truly a Loser in 20th-Century Biotechnology?

The Good Old America (6)

The Good Old America (5)

The Good Old America (4)

The Good Old America (3)

The Good Old America (2)

The Good Old America (1)

The Untold Story of HPLC: Why Did Dr. James L. Waters Create HPLC?

Naming of HPLC Columns

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