Fukui

[foo-koo-ee, foo-koo-ee]

noun

1. Kenichi 1918–98, Japanese chemist: Nobel Prize 1981.

2. a city in central Honshu, Japan.

Example Sentences

Tadamichi Morisaka, a cetology professor at Japan's Mie University, said the dorsal fin of a dolphin spotted biting a man's fingers at a beach in Tsuruga - a port city next to Mihama - matched those of a 2.5m long dolphin observed off the coast of Fukui province last year.

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"We've found the nearest, transiting, temperate, Earth-size world located to date," said Masayuki Kuzuhara, a project assistant professor at the Astrobiology Center in Tokyo, who co-led one research team with Akihiko Fukui, a project assistant professor at the University of Tokyo.

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A paper led by Kuzuhara and Fukui was published May 23 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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"We know of only a handful of temperate planets similar to Earth that are both close enough to us and meet other criteria needed for this kind of study, called transmission spectroscopy, using current facilities," said Michael McElwain, a research astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a co-author of the Kuzuhara and Fukui paper.

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"We've found the nearest, transiting, temperate, Earth-size world located to date," said Masayuki Kuzuhara, a project assistant professor at the Astrobiology Center in Tokyo, who co-led a research team with Akihiko Fukui, a project assistant professor at the University of Tokyo.

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