Jun Ishiwara
Jun Ishiwara | |
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Born | |
Died | January 19, 1947 | (aged 66)
Citizenship | Japan |
Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
Scientific career | |
Fields | theoretical physics |
Institutions | Tohoku University |
Doctoral advisor | Hantaro Nagaoka |
Jun Ishiwara or Atsushi Ishihara (石原 純; January 15, 1881 – January 19, 1947) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for his works on the electronic theory of metals, the
Biography
Jun Ishiwara was born in the family of Christian priest Ryo Ishiwara and Chise Ishiwara. In 1906, he completed his studies at the Department of Theoretical Physics at the
Since 1918, Ishiwara's scientific activity began to decline. In 1921, because of a love affair, he was forced to take leave at the university, and two years later finally retired. After retirement, he devoted himself mainly to writing and
Scientific achievements
Theory of relativity
Ishiwara was one of the first Japanese scholars to turn to the theory of relativity; he wrote the first scientific article in Japan on this subject.
Quantum physics
In the first paper devoted to the problems of quantum physics (1911), Ishiwara derived Planck's law and tried to substantiate the wave properties of radiation on the basis of the assumption that it consists of light quanta. Thus, he anticipated certain ideas of Louis de Broglie and Satyendra Nath Bose. In the same year, he supported the hypothesis of light quanta as a possible explanation of the nature of X-rays and gamma rays.[4][7]
In 1915, Ishiwara became the first non-Western scientist who referred to the Bohr atom theory in a published work.[4] On April 4, 1915, he presented to the Tokyo Mathematico-Physical Society the article "The universal meaning of the quantum of action" ("Universelle Bedeutung des Wirkungsquantums"), in which he attempted to unite the ideas of Max Planck on elementary cells in phase space, the idea of quantizing the angular momentum in the Bohr model atom and the hypothesis of Arnold Sommerfeld about the change of the action integral in quantum processes. Ishiwara suggested that the motion of a quantum system having degrees of freedom should satisfy the following average relationship between the values of the coordinates () and the corresponding momenta (): , where is the Planck constant. Ishiwara showed that this new hypothesis can be used to reproduce some quantum effects known at that time. Thus, he succeeded in obtaining an expression for the quantization of the angular momentum in the Bohr atom, taking into account also the ellipticity of electron orbits, although it followed from his theory the need to take the charge of the nucleus of the hydrogen atom equal to two elementary charges. As a second application of the proposed hypothesis, Ishiwara considered the problem of the photoelectric effect, obtaining a linear relationship between the electron energy and the radiation frequency in accordance with the Einstein formula.[8][9] Later in the same year Ishiwara put forward another hypothesis, according to which the product of the energy of the atom and the period of electron motion in the stationary state should be equal to the integer number of Planck constants.[10] In 1918, he linked the postulate proposed three years earlier to the theory of adiabatic invariants.[11]
Around the same time, analogous rules for quantizing systems of many degrees of freedom were independently obtained by William Wilson and Sommerfeld and are usually called the Sommerfeld quantum conditions. The reason for the error of Ishiwara, which was manifested in the calculation of the hydrogen atom, apparently was a superfluous averaging over the number of degrees of freedom (dividing by before the sum). At the same time, his quantum condition, which differed from Sommerfeld's one in the presence of summation, allowed to obtain correct results regardless of the choice of coordinates. This was pointed out in 1917 by Einstein, who, not knowing about the work of Ishiwara, derived the same relation and showed that in the case of separable coordinates it gives the conditions of Wilson and Sommerfeld.[12]
Select publications
- Ishiwara, Jun (1909). "Zur Optik der bewegten ponderablen Medien". Tokyo Sugaku Buturi-gakkakiwi Kizi [Proceedings of Tokyo Mathematico-Physical Society]. 5: 150–180. .
- Ishiwara, Jun (1912). "Beiträge zur Theorie der Lichtquanten". Scientific Reports of Tohoku University. 1: 67–104.
- Ishiwara, Jun (1912). "Bericht über die Relativitätstheorie". Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik. 9: 560–648.
- Ishiwara, Jun (1912). "Zur Theorie der Gravitation". Physikalische Zeitschrift. 13: 1189–1193.
- Ishiwara, Jun (1913). "Über das Prinzip der kleinsten Wirkung in der Elektrodynamik bewegter ponderabler Körper". Annalen der Physik. 42 (15): 986–1000. .
- Ishiwara, Jun (1914). "Die elektronentheoretische Begründung der Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper". Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik. 11: 167–186.
- Ishiwara, Jun (1914). "Die Grundlagen einer relativistischen und elektromagnetischen Gravitationstheorie". Physikalische Zeitschrift. 15: 294–298, 506–510.
- Ishiwara, Jun (1915). "Zur relativistischen Theorie der Gravitation". Scientific Reports of Tohoku University. 4: 111–160.
- Ishiwara, Jun (1915). "Universelle Bedeutung des Wirkungsquantums". Tokyo Sugaku Buturi-gakkakiwi Kizi. 8: 106–116. .
- Commented English translation: Ishiwara, Jun (2017). "The universal meaning of the quantum of action". European Physical Journal H. 42 (4–5): 523–536. S2CID 59937705.
- Commented English translation: Ishiwara, Jun (2017). "The universal meaning of the quantum of action". European Physical Journal H. 42 (4–5): 523–536.
- Ishiwara, Jun (1915). "Über den Fundamentalsatz der Quantentheorie". Tokyo Sugaku Buturi-gakkakiwi Kizi. 8: 318–326. .
- Ishiwara, Jun (1918). "Ryoshi-ron I, II, III [Quantum theory I, II, III]". Tokyo Butsuri-gakko Zasshi. 27: 147–158, 183–195, 221–230.
- Ishiwara, Jun (1921). Sōtaisei Genri [Principle of Relativity]. Tokyo.
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References
- ^ Abiko 2015, p. 3.
- ^ a b c d e Hirosige 1981.
- ^ a b Pelogia & Brasil 2017, p. 509.
- ^ a b c d Pelogia & Brasil 2017, p. 510.
- JSTOR 27757844.
- ^ Vizgin, Vladimir P. (2011). Unified Field Theories in the first third of the 20th century. Birkhäuser. pp. 38–41.
- ^ Abiko 2015, pp. 1, 4.
- ^ Mehra & Rechenberg 1982, pp. 210–211.
- ^ Pelogia & Brasil 2017, pp. 514–517.
- ^ Mehra & Rechenberg 1982, p. 211.
- ^ Abiko 2015, p. 2.
- ^ Abiko 2015, pp. 2–3.
Sources
- Abiko, Seiya (2015). "Ishiwara's contributions to early quantum theory and the reception of quantum theory in Japan": 1–8.
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(help) - Hirosige, Tetu (1981). "Ishiwara, Jun". In Charles Coulston, Gillispie (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 7. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 26–27.
- Mehra, Jagdish; Rechenberg, Helmut (1982). The Historical Development of Quantum Theory. Vol. 1, Part 1: The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr and Sommerfeld: Its Foundation and the Rise of Its Difficulties, 1900—1925. Springer.
- Nishio, S. (2011). 科学ジャーナリズムの先駆者――評伝 石原純 [Pioneer of Science Journalism: Biography of Jun Ishiwara]] (in Japanese). Iwanami.
- Pelogia, Karla; Brasil, Carlos Alexandre (2017). "Analysis of the Jun Ishiwara's "The universal meaning of the quantum of action"". S2CID 119208278.