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Makoto Kikuchi

きくち まこと

Kikuchi Makoto

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1925-12-06 （Tokyo）
Died
2012-11-06 age 86
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Physicist
Active Years
1948-2012
Affiliations
Electrical Testing Laboratory (now AIST), Sony Central Research Laboratory, School of Engineering, Tokai University

Education

Daiichi High School
Year of Graduation: 1945
Country: Japan
University of Tokyo
Faculty of Science / Department of Physics
Degree: 学士
Year of Graduation: 1948
Country: Japan

Awards

Mainichi Publishing Cultural Award
1959
Work: Transistor
Result: 受賞
Japan Essayist Club Award
1970
Work: The Age of Information People: The Path to Systems Thinking
Organization: Japan Essayist Club
Result: 受賞
Sankei Children's Publishing Culture Award
1972
Work: Lucky Failure: The Birth of the Transistor
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Transistor

1959

The Age of Information People: The Path to Systems Thinking

1970

Translations by Author

  • Mechanics: Shockley's Physics
  • MIT's Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Health

  • Multiple organ failure
    2012年
    Death

Trivia

  • His father, Toyosaburo Kikuchi, served as Vice-Minister of Education and president of Yokohama City University