page_title: Masato Sagawa
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Masato Sagawa / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Sagawa demonstrates that 1 gram of NdFeB can firmly hold 1900 grams of water
context_page_description: Masato Sagawa is a Japanese scientist and entrepreneur, and the inventor of sintered permanent magnet NdFeB.
  Sagawa was awarded the Japan Prize in 2012 for inventing and developing the highest performing sintered Nd-Fe-B type permanent magnets and contributing to energy conservation.
  Dr. Sagawa is the president of NDFEB Corporation at Kyoto, Japan.
context_section_description: The sintered NdFeB was initially conceived and developed by Sagawa when he was with Fujitsu Laboratories where he worked from 1972 to 1982. Without his supervisor's support for the new magnetic compound, Sagawa resigned in 1981, and then joined Sumitomo Special Metals. Within several months after joining Sumitomo Special Metals in 1982, the strongest sintered NdFeB magnet was developed. Dr. Sagawa presented the new discovery of NdFeB magnet during the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference in Nov. 1983 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1988, Sagawa founded Intermetallics, a research and development company devoted to the development of neodymium magnets.  Dr. Sagawa founded NDFEB Corporation in 2012 and he is the president of NDFEB Corporation at Kyoto, Japan.
   
caption: Dr. Sagawa demonstrates how 1 gram of NdFeB magnet disc can firmly hold ~1900 grams of water bottle.
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