Response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982.

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Response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982.

Seven-page typed response to questionnaire with some details concerning his early interest in science, his education at University of Tokyo, and his main field of research which included surveying in 1945 and 1946 of the damages caused by the atomic blast at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his professorship of physics in Tohoku University from 1950 to 1972, and consultancy to Argonne National Laboratory from 1973 to 1981 on the pulsed neutron project. Recipients were asked to discuss their entry into a scientific career in general and nuclear physics in particular, their work during the Second World War, their scientific achievements, the funding of their projects, the roles of related sciences--especially high energy physics--in their research, their work as educators, their perceptions of the public's attitutde towards science, and their involvment in physics-related organizations.

12 pp.

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