Kim D.-W. Yoshio Nishina: Father of Modern Physics in Japan

CRC Press, 2007. - 195 p.
Yoshio Nishina not only made a great contribution to the emergence of a research network that produced two Nobel prize winners, but he also raised the overall level of physics in Japan. Focusing on his roles as researcher, teacher, and statesman of science, Yoshio Nishina: Father of Modern Physics in Japan analyzes Nishina's position in and his contributions to the Japanese physics community.
After a concise biographical introduction, the book examines Nishina's family, his early studies, the creation of RIKEN, and the greater Japanese physics community in the early twentieth century. It then focuses on Nishina's work at the Cavendish Laboratory and at the University of Göttingen as well as his more fruitful research at Niels Bohr's Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. The book also describes the establishment of the Nishina Laboratory at RIKEN, the collaboration between its experimentalists and theoreticians, and the cosmic ray research of its scientists. The last two chapters discuss Nishina's controversial construction and operation of two cyclotrons at RIKEN as well as his presidency at RIKEN after World War II.Youth.
Nishina in Europe.
Preacher of the New Quantum Mechanics.
Beloved Sensei: Theoretical Research and the Emergence of a Research Network.
Cosmic Ray Research: This is Interesting. Let Us Try It.
Father of Big Science: The Construction of Two Cyclotrons.
Statesman of Science.