Jun Kondo
Encyclopedia
Jun Kondo is a theoretical physicist
in Japan
. His research is famous for the Kondo effect
.
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. His research is famous for the Kondo effect
Kondo effect
In physics, the Kondo effect describes the scattering of conduction electrons in a metal due to magnetic impurities. It is a measure of how electrical resistivity changes with temperature....
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Honours and appointments
- 1959 Dr. of Science (University of TokyoUniversity of Tokyo, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
) - 1959 Research Associate, Nihon UniversityNihon UniversityNihon University is the largest university in Japan. Akiyoshi Yamada, the minister of justice, founded Nihon Law School in October 1889....
- 1960 Research Associate, Institute for Solid-State Physics, University of TokyoUniversity of Tokyo, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
- 1963 Research Scientist, Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL)
- 1984 Fellow, ETL (dual appointment)
- 1990 Professor, Toho UniversityToho Universityis a university in Tokyo, Japan. Drs. Yutaka and Susumu Nukada founded the Imperial Women's Medical College at Ōmori,Tokyo, the location of the Faculty of Medicine at present, with their own money in 1925 and then they established the Imperial Women's Medical and Pharmaceutical College and the...
- 1995 Emeritus Professor, Toho UniversityToho Universityis a university in Tokyo, Japan. Drs. Yutaka and Susumu Nukada founded the Imperial Women's Medical College at Ōmori,Tokyo, the location of the Faculty of Medicine at present, with their own money in 1925 and then they established the Imperial Women's Medical and Pharmaceutical College and the...
- 1997 Member of the Japan Academy
- 2001–present: Special Adviser, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyThe , or AIST, is a Japanese research facility headquartered in Tokyo, and most of the workforce is located in Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki, and in several cities throughout Japan. The institute is managed to integrate scientific and engineering knowledge to address socio-economic needs...
(AISTAISTAIST can refer to:*African Institute of Science and Technology*national institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, one of the biggest research institutions in Japan...
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Books available in English
- Fermi surface effects : proceedings of the Tsukuba Institute, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, August 27–29, 1987 (1988)
External links
- Jun Kondo's web page – follow links in English, other parts are written in Japanese
- Kondo Effect – 40 Years after the Discovery – special issue of the Journal of the Physical Society of Japan