Hideo Hosono

Hideo Hosono
Born	Hideo Hosono September 7, 1953 Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japan
Fields	Materials science
Institutions	Tokyo Institute of Technology Nagoya Institute of Technology
Alma mater	Tokyo Metropolitan University
Known for	iron-based superconductors
Notable awards	Japan Prize Medal of Honor (Purple Ribbon) Research Achievement Award (Japanese Society of Applied Physics) James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials

Hideo Hosono (細野秀雄, Hosono Hideo^?, born September 7, 1953) is a Japanese material scientist most known for the discovery of iron-based superconductors. He is also a pioneer in developing transparent oxide semiconductors: he proposed a material design concept for an transparent amorphous oxide semiconductor (TAOS) with large electron mobility, demonstrated the excellent performance of TAOS thin film transistors for next generation displays and successfully converted a cement constituent 12CaO·7Al2O3 into transparent semiconductor, metal, and eventually superconductors.