Kyozi Kawasaki

Kyozi Kawasaki (Japanese川 崎 恭 治, Kawasaki Kyoji; * August 4, 1930 in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture) is a Japanese theoretical physicist who deals with statistical mechanics and solid state theory.

Life and work

Kawasaki studied at the University of Kyushu ( bachelor's degree in 1953, master's degree in 1955 ) and received his doctorate in 1959 at Duke University. As a post - graduate student he was at the Kyushu University and from 1960 to 1962 at the University of Kyoto. In 1962 he was instructor at the University of Nagoya, before he went to MIT in 1963. From 1966 he was an associate professor at the University of Kyushu and from 1970 at Temple University, where in 1972 he was professor. From 1973 he was a professor at Kyoto University and since 1976 at the University of Kyushu. In 2001 he was then until his retirement in 2007, Professor of Physics at the University of Chubu. 2001/ 02 he was Ulam Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory. From 2008 he worked at the Electronics Research Laboratory, Fukuoka Institute of Technology.

Kawasaki came in 2001 with Bernie Alder is the Boltzmann Medal in particular for his theory of coupled modes (mode coupling theory, MCT). Investigating the dynamics of fluids, their transport is determined near critical points ( phase transitions ) of the nonlinear interaction of long wavelength modes. It is based on the Mori- Twenty - formalism, identified "slow variable" where and are derived for them and their temporal correlation function of kinetic equations in the form of generalized Langevin equations ( as a convolution integral with a memory term, Memory Function ).

In 1972 he was awarded the Nishina Prize and in 1992 the Humboldt price.