Chushiro Hayashi

Chūshirō Hayashi (Japanese林 忠 四郎; born July 25 1920 in Kyoto, † February 28, 2010 ) was a Japanese astrophysicists.

Career

Hayashi received his bachelor's degree in physics in 1942 at the University of Tokyo. After living in Tokyo, as an employee of Hideki Yukawa in 1945 at the University of Kyoto and at the Naniwa University in Osaka, he returned as a professor to Kyoto.

In 1950 he contributed an important contribution to the Big Bang theory by showing that the proposed by Ralph Alpher and George Gamow model ( Alpher - Bethe- Gamow theory ) had to be supplemented by the formation of electron-positron pairs.

Hayashi developed the first models to contractive young stars before they reach the main sequence of the Hertzsprung -Russell diagram in a stage. According to him, the Hayashi - line is named.

Honors

  • Astronomer ( 20th century)
  • University teachers ( Kyoto University )
  • Kyoto Prize winner
  • Person with special cultural merits
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1920
  • Died 2010
  • Man
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