Akito Arima

Akito Arima
Akito Arima
有馬朗人
	Official portrait, 1998
Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency
	In office; 14 January 1999 – 5 October 1999
Prime Minister	Keizō Obuchi
Preceded by	Yutaka Takeyama
Succeeded by	Hirofumi Nakasone
Chairman of the Japanese Atomic Energy Commission
	In office; 14 January 1999 – 5 October 1999
Prime Minister	Keizō Obuchi
Preceded by	Yutaka Takeyama
Succeeded by	Hirofumi Nakasone
Minister of Education
	In office; 30 July 1998 – 5 October 1999
Prime Minister	Keizō Obuchi
Preceded by	Nobutaka Machimura
Succeeded by	Hirofumi Nakasone
Member of the House of Councillors
	In office; 26 July 1998 – 25 July 2004
Constituency	National PR
Personal details
Born	13 September 1930; Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Died	6 December 2020 (aged 90); Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Party	Liberal Democratic
Alma mater	University of Tokyo
Scientific career
Known for	Interacting boson model
Awards	Nishina Memorial Prize; Humboldt Prize; John Price Wetherill Medal; Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Japan Academy Prize; Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics; Legion of Honour; Order of the British Empire (KBE); Person of Cultural Merit; Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun; Order of Culture
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Tokyo; Argonne National Laboratory; Rutgers University; State University of New York at Stony Brook; Hosei University; RIKEN

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Akito Arima, KBE (有馬朗人, Arima Akito; 13 September 1930 – 7 December 2020) was a Japanese nuclear physicist, politician, and haiku poet, known for the interacting boson model.