Kiguma Jack Murata (December 29, 1909 Marysville – December 27, 2001 Sacramento) was a Japanese American geochemist of the U.S. Geological Survey who served as Scientist-in-Charge of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory from 1958 to 1960.
[10] Murata married Fumiko Elizabeth Kozono in 1938.
[19] During the 1940s and 50s, he was a member of the Optical Society of America,[20][21] as well as a member of both the Hawaiian Academy of Science around 1960 and the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists in the 1970s.
Murata died 2001 in Sacramento, California to pneumonia, following a stroke months earlier.
After his death, he was extended a tribute in the House of Representatives by Robert T. Matsui, who described him as "one of the most distinguished scientists and Government employees among Americans of Japanese ancestry in this country.