Keiichi Kodaira

Keiichi Kodaira ( Japanese 小平 桂 一 , Kodaira Keiichi ; born February 20, 1937 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese astrophysicist .

He first studied physics at the University of Tokyo . Subsequently, he studied from 1959 to 1961 Astronomy and received a scholarship which enabled him at the University of Kiel research for his Ph.D. to end. In 1964 he finally received his doctorate for his research work at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kiel University. Kodaira then worked at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and received a doctorate from the University of Tokyo for his spectroscopic and photometric studies of stars. He carried out further research in this area from 1967 to 1969 at the California Institute of Technology .

Kodaira has also been giving lectures since 1971 and taught as a visiting professor at Heidelberg University from 1972 to 1973 . He then studied the chemical composition of stars and was initially Vice President of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). From 1982 to 1985 he was finally Chairman of Commission No. 36 ( Theory of Star Atmospheres ) of the IAU.

Kodaira's interest expanded to include galaxies, and he studied them in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum . Since Kodaira was Professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan from 1982, he sponsored the Japan National Large Telescope Project . From this later the Subaru telescope emerged, with which, among other things, one of the earliest galaxies was discovered at a distance of about 12.88 billion light years . After completing the Subaru project, he sponsored the development of ALMA . Karl Schwarzschild Medal , 2001.

Kodaira is currently the director of the JSPS Bonn Office , the representation of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in Germany.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} jspsusa.org: KEIICHI KODAIRA
2. ^ JSPS Bonn Office