Kinoshita, T. (Toichiro)
Oral history interview with Toichiro Kinoshita, 2016 January 9, 10 & 18.
Interview with Toichiro Kinoshita, a Japanese-born physicist who is best known for pioneering the value of muon g-2, the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. Kinoshita describes his educationDaiichi High School, Tokyo Universityhow he avoided military service during World War II, and meeting and marrying his wife, Masako Matsuoka. He describes his introduction to quantum electrodynamics and renormalization through papers by Dyson and Feynman. His early research also involved work on the C-meson theory developed by Sakata. After the war, Kinoshita came to the United States to the Institute for Advanced Study, then as a postdoc at Columbia in 1954. In 1955 Kinoshita moved to Cornell. He became particularly interested in making calculations to test the theory of quantum electrodynamics. He describes his introduction to computers at Princeton, using von Neumanns computer. The interview covers how he became interested in calculating g-2 at CERN in 1966, and his subsequent efforts, the first being the sixth order calculation, where the light-by-light diagram enters for the first time. He describes his efforts doing the eighth order calculation, and his collaboration with Makiko Nio, as well as his calculations of the tenth order. Physicists whom he describes more than briefly include Kodaira, Tomonaga, Nambu, and Nio. Near the end, Kinoshita describes the importance of g-2 experiments, and his recent work.
Toichiro Kinoshita is a Japanese-born physicist who is best known for pioneering the value of muon g-2, the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. He completed his graduate studies at University of Tokyo and postdoctoral appointments at the Institute of Advanced Study and Columbia University. Kinoshita was a professor at Cornell University for many years.
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Brodsky, S.
Cvitanovi , Predrag
Dehmelt, Hans
Hylleraas, Egil A. (Egil Andersen), 1898-1965.
Kinoshita, T. (Toichiro)
Nambu, Yoichiro, 1921-2015
Pais, Abraham, 1918-2000
Sirlin, A. (Alberto)
Tomonaga, Shin ichir , 1906-1979
Yukawa, Hideki, 1907-1981
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Columbia University
Cornell University
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
New York University
Princeton University
T ky Daigaku
Light -- Scattering
Muons.
Quantum electrodynamics
Quantum field theory
Regge poles.
Renormalization (Physics)
S-matrix theory
Standard model (Nuclear physics)
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Crease, Robert P. interviewer.
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