Kyōji Nishikawa

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Kyōji Nishikawa ( Japanese 西川 恭 治 , Nishikawa Kyōji ; * 1934 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese physicist and former professor of theoretical physics who researched in the field of plasma physics and nuclear fusion .

Life

Kyōji Nishikawa was born as the son of the physicist Shōji Nishikawa (1884-1952) and the teacher Kiku Ayai; they had a total of four sons and one daughter. His father did research in the field of crystallography using the then new method of X-ray diffraction and was Professor of Physics at the University of Tokyo from 1924 to 1945 .

Like his father and older brother Tetsuji Nishikawa , he studied physics at the University of Tokyo, where he graduated with a Master of Science degree in 1959 . He then went to Canada to the University of British Columbia , where he received his doctorate in 1962 . After his return, Kyōji Nishikawa worked at the Faculty of Science at the University of Kyoto in the field of plasma physics until he went to Hiroshima University as a professor in the early 1980s . He worked there in the field of nuclear fusion until his retirement in 1995, including at the Center for Nuclear Fusion Theory . He was then a professor at Kinki University for a few years and is still professor emeritus as a scientific advisor at Hiroshima University.

Works

  • with Masahiro Wakatani : Plasma Physics: Basic Theory with Fusion Applications (Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics). Springer, 1990, 3rd edition 2000, ISBN 3-540-65285-X .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ I. Nitta: Shoji Nishikawa 1884-1952. In: PP Ewald (Ed.) Fifty Years of X-Ray Diffraction. International Union of Crystallography, 1962, pp. 328-334 ( PDF ; Reprint Springer 2012, ISBN 978-1-4615-9963-0 ).
  2. ↑ Kyoji Nishikawa: Theory of the phonon broadening of impurity spectral lines. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1962 ( PDF ).
  3. ↑ 幸福 な 研究 生活 を 振 り 返 っ て . 広 大 フ ォ ー ラ ム , February 2, 1998. Retrieved May 10, 2014 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ 西川 恭 治: 百 人 一 首 の 愉 し み か た . 広 島 大学 マ ス タ ー ズ , 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2014 (Japanese).
  5. ^ Special and Academic Advisers. ( Memento of May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Hiroshima University. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  6. ^ Nishina Memorial Prize. Nishina Memorial Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Nishikawa, Kyōji
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo