Jun Kondō (近藤 淳 ''Kondō Jun'', 6 February 1930 – 11 March 2022) was a Japanese theoretical
physicist
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.
His research is noted for the
Kondo effect
In physics, the Kondo effect describes the scattering of conduction electrons in a metal due to magnetic impurities, resulting in a characteristic change i.e. a minimum in electrical resistivity with temperature.
The cause of the effect was firs ...
. He was an
emeritus
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In some c ...
fellow of the
(AIST). Kondō died from pneumonia on 11 March 2022, at the age of 92.
Honours and appointments
*1959 Dr. of Science,
University of Tokyo
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*1959 Research Associate,
Nihon University
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*1960 Research Associate, Institute for Solid-State Physics,
University of Tokyo
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*1963 Research Scientist,
Electrotechnical Laboratory
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(ETL)
ecame AIST*1968
Nishina Memorial Prize
The is the oldest and most prestigious physics award in Japan.
Information
Since 1955, the Nishina Memorial Prize has been awarded annually by the Nishina Memorial Foundation. The Foundation was established to commemorate Yoshio Nishina, who ...
*1973
Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy
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Overviews
It is awarded in two categories: humanities and natural sciences. The Emperor of Japan, Emperor and Empress ...
*1979
Asahi Prize
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*1984 Fellow, ETL (dual appointment)
*1987
Fritz London Memorial Prize The International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT) is an academic conference held every three years near the month of September attracting on average well over a thousand participants from all over the world. The LT conferences are endorse ...
*1990 Professor,
Toho University
is a university in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.
History
The two brothers Yutaka Nukada and Susumu Nukada founded the Imperial Women's Medical College in Ōmori, Tokyo, the location of the present-day Faculty of Medicine, with their own money in 1925 ...
*1995 Emeritus Professor, Toho University
*1997 Member of the
Japan Academy
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*2001–20??: Special Adviser,
(AIST)
*2020
Order of Culture
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See also
*
Kondo effect
In physics, the Kondo effect describes the scattering of conduction electrons in a metal due to magnetic impurities, resulting in a characteristic change i.e. a minimum in electrical resistivity with temperature.
The cause of the effect was firs ...
*
Kondo insulator
*
Kondo model
The Kondo model (sometimes referred to as the s-d model) is a model for a single localized quantum impurity coupled to a large reservoir of delocalized and noninteracting electrons. The quantum impurity is represented by a spin-1/2 particle, and i ...
Books available in English
*''Fermi surface effects'': proceedings of the Tsukuba Institute, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, 27–29 August 1987 (1988)
*''The Physics of Dilute Magnetic Alloys'' (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
References
External links
Jun Kondō's web pageKondo Effect – 40 Years after the Discovery
– special issue of the Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
1930 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Japanese physicists
University of Tokyo alumni
Academic staff of Nihon University
Laureates of the Imperial Prize
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Persons of Cultural Merit
Recipients of the Order of Culture
Scientists from Tokyo
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