Hidetoshi Katori

Hidetoshi Katori (香取秀俊) is a Japanese physicist and professor at the University of Tokyo best known for having invented the magic wavelength technique for ultra precise optical lattice atomic clocks. Since 2011, Katori is also Chief Scientist at the Quantum Metrology Lab, RIKEN.

Recently, Katori's group performed a measurement of gravitational redshift with two transportable strontium optical lattice clocks over nearly the entire height of the Tokyo Skytree, setting a new record for the best ground-based test of general relativity.

Recognition

 * 2005 – Award of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
 * 2005 – Springer Nature Applied Physics Award
 * 2006 – Japan IBM Science Prize
 * 2008 – I. I. Rabi Award
 * 2010 – Ichimura Academic Award
 * 2011 – Award of Minister of MEXT
 * 2011 – Philipp Franz von Siebold-Preis, Germany
 * 2012 – Asahi Prize
 * 2013 – Nishina Memorial Prize
 * 2013 – Fujiwara Prize
 * 2013 – Toray Award in Science and Technology
 * 2014 – Medal with Purple Ribbon
 * 2015 – Japan Academy Prize (academics)
 * 2017 – Leo Esaki Prize
 * 2022 – Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics