The 2012 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Environment, Energy and Infrastructure
• Achievement:
  Developing the world's highest performing Nd-Fe-B type permanent magnet and contributing to energy conservation
• Lecture:
  How the World's Strongest "Neodymium Magnet" Came to Exist

Major Honors

1984	Osaka Prize
1985	Minister of Science and Technology Agency Award
1986	American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials
1990	Asahi Prize
1991	Japan Magnetics Society Award
1993	Okochi Memorial Prize
1998	Acta Metallurgica J. Herbert Hollomon Award
2003	Honda-kinen Prize
2006	Kato-kinen Prize

Academic Degrees

1966	B.A. from Kobe University
1972	Dr. Eng. from Tohoku University

Professional Career

1972-1982	Fujitsu Ltd.
1982-1988	Sumitomo Special Metals Co., Ltd.
1988 -	President, Intermetallics Co., Ltd.

Major Publications

• M. Sagawa, S. Fujimura, N. Togawa, H. Yamamoto and Y. Matsuura, "New Material for Permanent Magnets on a Base of Nd and Fe", J.Appl.Phys.55, pp.2083-2087, 1984.
• M. Sagawa, S. Fujimura, H. Yamamoto and Y. Matsuura and K. Hiraga, "Permanent Magnet Materials Based on the Rare-Earth-Iron-Boron Tetragonal Compounds", IEEE Trans.Magn.MAG-20, pp.1584-1589, 1984.
• M. Sagawa, S. Hirosawa, Y. Otani, H. Miyajima and S. Chikazumi, "Temperature Dependence of the Coercivity of Sintered R17Fe83-xBx Magnets(R=Pr, Nd)", J. Magn. Magn. Mat.70, pp.316-318, 1987.
• M. Sagawa, S. Hirosawa, K. Tokuhara, H. Yamamoto and S. Fujimura, "Dependence of Coercivity on the Anisotropy Field in the Nd-Fe-B type Sintered Magnets", J. Appl. Phys.61, pp.3559-3561, 1987.
• M. Sagawa, P. Tenaud, F. Vial and K. Hiraga, "High Coercivity Nd-Fe-B Sintered Magnet Containing Vanadium with New Microstructure", IEEE Trans. Magn. 26, pp.1957-1959, 1990.