is a Japanese

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

notable for his work on

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and the foundations of

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Education

He graduated from Kunitachi High School, in 1976. He obtained his BSc, 1980, his MSc, 1982, and PhD, under

Akito Arima was a Japanese nuclear physicist and politician, known for the interacting boson model. Personal life Arima was born 1930 in Osaka. He studied at the University of Tokyo, where he received his doctorate in 1958. He became a research associate at ...

, 1985, all from the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project b ...

. His PhD thesis topic was in the area of theoretical nuclear physics.

Career

In 1985, he was a Yukawa Research Associate at Osaka University. In 1986, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

and in 1987 he was a research associate at the

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. In 1989, he was appointed as an INS Research Associate at the

. Presently he is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Kochi University of Technology, Japan.

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Cheon's math genealogyCheon's homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cheon, Taksu Living people Scientists from Tokyo Japanese physicists Quantum physicists Academic staff of Osaka University 1958 births

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