Yasushi Takahashi

Yasushi Takahashi (Japanese高桥 康, Yasushi Takahashi, born December 12, 1924 in Osaka, † February 12, 2013 in Edmonton, Canada ) was a Japanese theoretical physicist. He is responsible for the Ward - Takahashi identities are known ( also named after John Clive Ward).

Takahashi made ​​1951 a bachelor's degree in physics at Nagoya University and then went on a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Rochester. In 1954 he received his doctorate. As a post - graduate student, he was in 1954/55 Fellow of the National Research Council of Canada, 1955 to 1957 at Iowa State University and in 1957 at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where he became Associate Professor in 1958 and Professor in 1960. Since 1968 he was a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. 1969-1985 he was the Director of The Institute for Theoretical Physics.

It was 1971 and several times later visiting professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Study.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

His wife Betty, he met in Ireland know and had with her two sons. In his spare time, he wrote short stories, tischlerte and listened to classical music.

Writings

• An introduction to field quantization, Pergamon Press, Oxford 1968.
• On the generalized Ward identity, Nuovo Cimento, Vol 6, 1957, p 371