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Hiroto Kono, Ph.D.
Hiroto Kono, Ph.D.
Dr. Hiroto Kono is a curator and researcher at the Department of Science, National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan, where he oversees the history of science collections. He holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science from the Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology), with a focus on the historical formation of solid-state and condensed matter physics in Japan. He also studied at the University of California, Berkeley, as a visiting student researcher at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society.
His academic background includes degrees in physics from the University of Tokyo, along with graduate training in both physics and the history of science. Dr. Kono has served as a committee member of the History of Science Society of Japan and the Physical Society of Japan. In 2023, he hosted the Japan meeting of the Artefacts Consortium, an international network of historians and curators focused on the material culture of science.
His recent work includes the award-winning article “The Emergence of ‘Busseiron’ and Its Historiographical Position,” which received the 6th Best Article Prize from the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry in 2024. He was also awarded a research grant from the American Institute of Physics in 2022. His publications explore the institutional and intellectual history of modern physics and materials science in Japan.
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