Seishi Kikuchi

Seishi Kikuchi (Japanese菊池 正 士, Kikuchi Seishi; born August 25, 1902 in the prefecture of Tokyo, † 12 November 1974) was a Japanese physicist, who is considered one of the fathers of nuclear physics in Japan and 1928, important experiments performed for electron diffraction.

Kikuchi grew up in Tokyo, the fourth son of Dairoku Kikuchi, and studied physics at the Imperial University, where he graduated in 1926. In 1928 he discovered the Kikuchi lines in the image of the electron diffraction on thin mica films ( which thus produced similar images of crystals as the renowned since Max von Laue images of the X-ray diffraction and the wave nature of electrons aufzeigten ) and explained this. In 1929 he went to continue his studies in Germany, including in Göttingen ( where he published with Lothar Nordheim quantum statistics ) and Werner Heisenberg in Leipzig. In 1934 he became a professor at Osaka University, where he built the first Cockcroft -Walton generator for particle acceleration in Japan. After the Second World War, he was ( after 1950/51 was at Cornell University, Robert R. Wilson and Hans Bethe ) 1955, the first director of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the University of Tokyo, where he installed a cyclotron. 1959 to 1961 he was director of the company founded in 1956 Japanese nuclear research center ( Genken ) in Tōkai ( the national reprocessing plant ). Later he was president of the Science University of Tokyo (Tokyo Rika Daigaku ).

In 1957 he became a member of the Japan Academy (Japan Academy).

His PhD is one of Hideki Yukawa (1938).