Jun Kondo

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Jun Kondō ( Japanese 近藤 淳 , Kondō Jun ; * February 6, 1930 ) is a theoretical physicist in Japan . The Kondo effect he explained is named after him.

Life

Kondō studied physics at the University of Tokyo with a degree in 1954 and a doctorate in 1959. He then worked as a researcher at Nihon University (1959), at the Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo (1960 to 1963) and at the Electrotechnical Institute (ETL) , where he became head of the electron physics department from 1983 and stayed until his retirement in 1990. Then he was an Emeritus Fellow there. In 1990 he took over a professorship at Toho University , where he retired in 1995.

1966/67 he was a visiting scientist at Bell Laboratories.

Since 1997 he has been a member of the Japanese Academy of Sciences , ( Nihon gakushiin ) and since 2001 a special advisor at the National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).

Kondō was awarded the Asahi Prize in 1979 and the Nishina Prize in 1968 . In 1984 he received the Fujiwara Prize and in 1987 the Fritz London Memorial Award . In 1973 he received the Japan Academy Award and the Imperial Award, and in 2003 he became a Person of Cultural Merit. In 2009 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences .

Works

  • Fermi surface effects : proceedings of the Tsukuba Institute, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, August 27-29, 1987 (1988) (English)
  • The Physics of Dilute Magnetic Alloys , Cambridge University Press 2012. ISBN 978-1-107-02418-2 (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Kondō, Jun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 近藤 淳 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1930