| Prof. Akira Yazawa, one of the most often quoted authors
in pyrometallurgical textbooks world-wide, has published over 300 technical
papers, relating to a wide variety of subjects, such as slag, alloys, matte,
speiss, aqueous solutions, alcohols and algae, while dealing with the extractive
metallurgy of Zn, Pb, Ni, Sn, Sb, Au, Hg and Cd, as well as copper smelting.
Professor Yazawa's stronghold has been thermodynamics, as is evident in
his Japanese monograph "Hydrometallurgy and Effluent Treatments" (1975)
and his AIME Extractive Metallurgy Lecture (1979). His international
fame as industrially oriented academician brought many overseas graduates
to his laboratory, Tohoku University, where he raised 17 international
Ph. D.'s, in addition to a number of Japanese engineer doctors. He
taught pyrometallurgical thermodynamic courses at many overseas institutions
: Kosice Technical University (Slovakia), Santa Maria University (Chile),
Melbourne University (Australia), to name a few. His prolific research
and publication career has seen no slow-down with age, and in his 70's
he has published more than 20 high caliber papers in the fields of slag
thermodynamics and environmental chemistry.
Prof. Yazawa has been recognized worldwide with many awards, prizes and honors. Some of these are the following:
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