Kenji Nukazawa collection

Kenji Nukazawa collection

Approx. 300 books→List of books (Borrowing not allowed/photocopying permitted)

Associate Professor at Hokkaido University, chemist Nukazawa graduated from Nada Junior High School (a private school in Hyogo) within four years. After his graduation from the school, he majored in science at Dai-ichi High School before graduating from the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Science at Tokyo Imperial University in 1945. Immediately after his university graduation, he was accepted as an assistant at the Chemistry Department of the Research Institute of Ultrasonic Sound Waves at Hokkaido Imperial University (now the Research Institute for Electronic Science). In April 1955, he became an associate professor at the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science at Hokkaido University, and started teaching physics at the Faculty of Liberal Arts. Shortly thereafter, however, he passed away in July 1955. He specialized in physical chemistry with a particular focus on structural chemistry and solid state physics. Nukazawa exhibited excellent talent both in experiments and theory, but devoted himself to theoretical research in his later career. This was probably due either to health problems or to the fact that he simply wanted to reveal the uncharted mysteries of the fundamental structures of matter. He also worked hard in the field of peacemaking activities. The Nukazawa collection consists of chemistry and physics-related literature from his former accumulation of publications.

1923 – 1955