Seishi Kikuchi

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Seishi Kikuchi
Born(1902-08-25)August 25, 1902
Tokyo Imperial University
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics

Seishi Kikuchi (菊池 正士, Kikuchi Seishi, August 25, 1902 – November 12, 1974) was a Japanese

electrons
.

Kikuchi's research was recorded in the official Nobel Prize selection meeting minutes of the 1930s.[1]

Biography

Seishi Kikuchi was born and grew up in Tokyo. He graduated in 1926 from

Tokyo Imperial University
.

In 1928, Kikuchi and

Cockcroft-Walton accelerator
.

In 1955, he was appointed as the first director of the Institute of Nuclear Research at the University of Tokyo, and successfully presided over the completion of the variable energy cyclotron.

Between 1959 and 1964, he was chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute.

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