Akito Arima
Akito Arima ( Japanese 有 馬 朗 人, Arima Akito ; born September 13, 1930 in Osaka , Japan , † December 7, 2020 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese theoretical nuclear physicist and politician ( Liberal Democratic Party ).
Life
Arima studied at the University of Tokyo (Bachelor 1953, Master 1956), where he received his doctorate in 1958 . He then went to the Institute for Nuclear Physics there, became a lecturer in 1960 and assistant professor in 1964. 1967/68 he was visiting professor at Rutgers University and from 1971 professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY). From 1975 he was a professor at the University of Tokyo. In 1981 he became director of the data center there. From 1983 to 1987 he was a council member of the university, vice-president from 1987 to 1989 and president of the university from 1989 to 1993. In 1993 he retired. He was then a professor at Hōsei University(1993), 1993 to 1998 science advisor in the Ministry of Culture and 1993 to 1998 President of RIKEN (Institute for Physical and Chemical Research).
In 1998 he was elected for the Liberal Democratic Party via proportional representation into the Sangiin , the upper house of the Japanese parliament, of which he was a member for a term until 2004. In the Obuchi cabinet he was education minister until 1999 , after a cabinet reshuffle in 1999 he was also head of the authority for science and technology. From 2000 he was chairman of the Japan Science Foundation (English for Nihon Kagaku Gijutsu Shinkō Zaidan ).
Together with Francesco Iachello, Arima is the founder of the Interacting Boson Model (1974).
In 1993 he and Iachello received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics . In 1987 he received the Humboldt Prize, the Wetherill Medal in 1990, the Japanese Academy Prize (1993) and the Nishina Prize in 1978 . He has multiple honorary doctorates (including Drexel University , SUNY, Birmingham, Glasgow, Weizmann Institute , University of Arizona ) and honorary professor at the University of Glasgow (1984). In 1990 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Great Cross of Merit) and in 2004 the Great Ribbon of the Order of the Rising Sun. In 2002 he became Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), and in 1998 Grand Officer of the Legion of Honorand 1991 Kanselarij the Nederlandse Orden . In 2004 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits , in 2010 he was awarded the Order of Culture .
In 1988 he received the Haiku Society Prize for a volume of poetry ( haiku poems). In 1999 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Fonts
- with Francesco Iachello : Collective nuclear states as representations of a SU (6) Group. In: Physical Review Letters. Vol. 35, 1975, ISSN 0031-9007 , pp. 1069-1072, doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.35.1069 .
- with Francesco Iachello: The interacting boson model. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge u. a. 1987, ISBN 0-521-30282-X .
- with Francesco Iachello: Interacting boson model of collective states I. The vibrational limit. In: Annals of Physics. Vol. 99, 1976, ISSN 0003-4916 , pp. 253-317; with Francesco Iachello: II. The rotational limit. ibid. Vol. 111, 1978, pp. 201-238; with Olaf Scholten: III. The transition from SU (5) to SU (3). ibid. Vol. 115, 1978, pp. 325-366; with Francesco Iachello: IV. The O (6) limit. ibid. Vol. 123, 1979, pp. 468-492.
- with Francesco Iachello: The Interacting Boson Model. In: Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. Vol. 31, 1981, ISSN 0163-8998 , pp. 75-105, doi : 10.1146 / annurev.ns.31.120181.000451 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Japanese physicist, former education minister Akito Arima dies at 90" on mainichi.jp of December 7, 2020 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arima, Akito |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 有 馬 朗 人 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 2020 |
| Place of death | Tokyo |