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Ryuji Takaki

Ryuji Takaki

Ryuji Takaki, a physicist, was President of Katachi no kagaku kai (Society for Science on Form) and Editor-in-chief of the journal Forma (http://www.scipress.org/journals/forma/index.html ).
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