Dr. Hideo Hosono has concentrated on the cultivation of electronic functions in inorganic materials over the past 2 decades and created several innovative materials, some of which have opened novel and large academic fields and/or led to large industrial applications. His approach is to combine physical measurements with unique material choices based on his chemical intuition. He has published ~1,000 original papers (h-index 127), 5 books in English, ~90 registered international patents on these subjects, and has received many scientific prizes including the Imperial Prize and Japan Academy Prize, the highest academic honors in Japan (each year a single Imperial Prize is awarded in the natural science sector to the researcher with greatest research achievement) and several highest prizes from the academic societies such as Materials Research Society (MRS), Society for Information Display(SID) and American Physical Society. In 2016, the Japan Prize, the highest international prize endorsed by the Japanese Government, was awarded to him for “Creation of unconventional inorganic materials with novel electronic functions based on nano-structure engineering”. The impact of his research not only developed new areas in materials science but led to large industrial application.