Interview with Dr. Motoji Ikeya By David Jay Brown Dr. Motoji
Ikeya is a Japanese interdisciplinary researcher, using electron
spin resonance (ESR) in geosciences and radiation dopsimetry,
with a research interest in the cause of unusual animal behavior
prior to earthquakes. His laboratory experiments at Osaka
University have shed an enormous amount of light on the possible
mechanisms that may be operating during this unexplained
phenomenon. Dr. Ikeya majored in Electronics and then Nuclear
Engineering at Osaka University. He worked at Nagoya and
Yamaguchi Universities, was a research associate at The
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a fellow of the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of
Stuttgart, Germany. He is a recipient of the Asahi Newspaper
Grant for Encouragement of Science (1981) and the 4th Osaka
Science Prize in 1986. Dr. Ikeya’s major field of specialization
has been in quantum geophysics. He has researched Electron Sin
Resonance (ESR), which is used for dating geol