Suwa Shigeki

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Suwa Shigeki ( Japanese 諏 訪 繁 樹 ; * 1920 ; † December 16, 1997 in Japan ) was a Japanese physicist and one of the founding fathers of the Japanese Research Center for High Energy Physics KEK and its first general director from 1971 to 1977.

Life

Suwa Shigeki studied at the natural science faculty of the Imperial University of Tokyo until 1944 and then did research there until 1954 in the field of nuclear physics . He then went to the Institute of Nuclear Study (INS) at the University of Tokyo, where he was involved in the design and construction of the institute's first cyclotron . In 1960 he went to the United States , where he worked at the University of Minnesota until 1962 and at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago from 1963 to 1966 ; The main focus was the generation and use of polarized proton beams.

After returning to Japan, Shigeki Suwa and the physicist Nishikawa Tetsuji were the driving force behind a group of leading Japanese scientists in the late 1960s who campaigned for the establishment of a powerful proton synchrotron. In the early 1970s, the Japanese government approved the construction of an 8 GeV proton synchrotron (the aim was, however, a 40 GeV proton synchrotron), with the condition that a national high-energy physics research institution should be established, which ultimately led to the establishment of the KEK in 1971. Shigeki Suwa was the first general director until 1977 and Tetsuji Nishikawa was responsible for the design and construction of the proton synchrotron KEK-PS .

From 1980 to 1984 Shigeki Suwa was Professor at Tsukuba University and President of what is now the University's Proton Medical Research Center , which deals with the use of proton beams for cancer therapy . Until 1991 he was a professor at the Tokyo University of Natural Sciences .

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  1. ↑ Seishi Kikuchi et al .: A 160 cm Synchro- and Variable Energy Ordinary Cyclotron. In: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. Vol. 15, No. 1, 1960, doi : 10.1143 / JPSJ.15.41 , pp. 41-59.
  2. ↑ a b c Yoshitaka Kimura, Nobukazu Toge: Pursuit of Accelerator Projects at KEK in Japan. ( PDF ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )) In: Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology. Vol. 5, 2012, doi : 10.1142 / S1793626812300137 , pp. 333-360.
  3. ↑ Awards of the FAS. Foundation for High-Energy Accelerator Science (FAS). Retrieved May 11, 2014 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ a b c d Shigeki SUWA 1920-1997. KEK News, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1998, ISSN  1343-3547 , p. 12 f. ( PDF ( Memento from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Suwa is the family name, Shigeki the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Suwa, Shigeki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 諏 訪 繁 樹 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese physicist and one of the founding fathers of the Japanese research center for high energy physics KEK as well as its first general director (1971–1977)
DATE OF BIRTH 1920
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1997
Place of death Japan