Category Archives: Announcement

Dr. Hiroshige Yoshida, a software engineer at Subaru Telescope, passed away on 12 November 2024 because of disease. Dr. Yoshida was a skillful software engineer and joined the PFS project in 2017. Soon after joining PFS, he discussed actively with colleagues at regular meeting and other places. He developed temperature control system for PFS Spectrograph Clean Room, and control software… Read more »

Prof. Masahiro Takada (Kavli IPMU), the PFS Primary Scientist, won Hayashi Chushiro Prize in 2023. Hayashi Chushiro Prize of Astronomical Society of Japan (ASJ) was established based on donation by Dr. Chushiro Hayashi (emeritus professor of Kyoto University at that time), when he was awarded for the 11th Kyoto Prize in 1995 [1]. He donated to ASJ encouraging younger researchers… Read more »

Prof. Richard Ellis, who leads the PFS science team, won 2022 Royal Medal of the Royal Society in UK. https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/royal-medal/ Royal Medal started in 1825. Each year, the Royal Society awards three persons; the two persons who did the most important contribution to advance natural knowledge of physics and biology, respectively, and one person who significantly contributed to applied science…. Read more »

Professor Naruhisa Takato passed away on May 14, 2021. He got ill on April 24 while he was staying in Taichung to participate in the final phase of integration and test of Prime Focus Instrument (PFI) of the PFS instrument. An emergency surgery was operated on the same day and then he was under intensive cares, but he never returned…. Read more »

Prof. Olivier Le Fèvre passed away on June 25, 2020 at the age of 59. He had been fighting brain cancer with courage and lucidity for the past 2 and a half years. Prof. Le Fèvre was the key person to get the PFS project off the ground, bringing Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille as a full partner of the collaboration…. Read more »