Yasushi Takahashi
Yasushi Takahashi ( Japanese 高橋 康 , Takahashi Yasushi ; born December 12, 1924 in Osaka , † February 12, 2013 in Edmonton , Canada ) was a Japanese theoretical physicist . He is known for the Ward-Takahashi identities (also named after John Clive Ward ).
Takahashi received his bachelor's degree in physics from Nagoya University in 1951 and then went to the University of Rochester on a Fulbright scholarship . In 1954 he received his doctorate. As a post-doctoral student , he was a Fellow of the National Research Council of Canada from 1954/55, from 1955 to 1957 at Iowa State University and in 1957 at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies , where he became Associate Professor in 1958 and Professor in 1960. Since 1968 he was a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton . From 1969 to 1985 he was director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics there.
He was visiting professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Study in 1971 and several times later.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada , a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
He met his wife Betty in Ireland and had two sons with her. In his spare time he wrote short stories, made a carpenter and listened to classical music.
Fonts
- An introduction to field quantization , Pergamon Press, Oxford 1968.
- On the generalized Ward identity , Nuovo Cimento, Volume 6, 1957, p. 371.
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data based on American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Obituary Notice , Edmonton Journal
- ^ History of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Study
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Takahashi, Yasushi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 高橋 康 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 2013 |
| Place of death | Edmonton |