Yukihiro Ozaki honored with the 2025 Ellis R. Lippincott Award

For more than four decades, Yukihiro Ozaki has advanced molecular spectroscopy across an unusually wide spectral span, from far-ultraviolet (FUV) to terahertz/far-infrared (FIR), with deep contributions in Raman (including SERS/TERS), NIR spectroscopy, and ATR-FUV spectroscopy. His work couples fundamental theory and instrumentation with impactful applications, notably pioneering medical Raman studies of disease processes, developing ATR-FUV methods that opened access to σ-electron chemistry, and expanding anharmonic quantum-chemical modeling for IR/NIR interpretation. These efforts, together with innovations in NIR imaging and enhanced NIR via surface plasmon resonance, have influenced physical and analytical chemistry, nanomaterials, and bioscience. In recognition of these achievements, Ozaki received the 2025 Ellis R. Lippincott Award for lifetime accomplishments spanning Raman, NIR, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS and TERS), ATR-FUV, two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2D-COS), and chemometrics.