Kamae, Tune.
Oral history interview with Tsuneyoshi Kamae, 2021 April 20.
Interview with Tsuneyoshi (Tune) Kamae, Professor Emeritus, both of the University of Tokyo, Department of Physics and of SLAC. Kamae discusses his current work configuring digital devices on science education for the visually impaired, and he recounts his childhood in Himeji and then Osaka, Japan and his early memories of World War II. He describes his undergraduate education at Kyoto University and his developing interest in physics and the opportunity that led to his acceptance at Princeton to work with Val Fitch on the root cause of CP violation. Kamae describes his postdoctoral work at KEK in Japan, where he studied the internal motion of the proton inside the nucleus, and he explains the circumstances that led him to LBL and then SLAC to work on the Time Projection Chamber. He discusses his involvement with the SSC planning and how he became involved in X-ray astronomy. Kamae discusses SLACs embrace of astrophysics under the leadership of Burt Richter, and he reflects on some of the cultural differences in physics environments in the United States and Japan. At the end of the interview Kamae shares his hopes for the future of the education program he is developing, and he discusses some of the strategic challenges Japan is facing in light of its demographic trends.
Tsuneyoshi (Tune) Kamae is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo Department of Physics and also at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Kamae completed his graduate studies at Princeton University and postdoctoral research at KEK in Japan. He worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before joining SLAC.
Fitch, Val L., 1923-2015
Kamae, Tune.
Richter, Burton, 1931-
K -enerug Kasokuki Kenky Kik (Japan)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Princeton University
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford University
T ky Daigaku
Astrophysics
Colliders (Nuclear physics).
CP violation (Nuclear physics)
Particle physics. gtt
Physics -- Study and teaching
Superconducting Super Collider
Time projection chambers (Nuclear physics)
X-ray astronomy
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Zierler, David, 1979- interviewer.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA