Morikazu Toda

Morikazu Toda
Born	20 October 1917 Tokyo
Died	6 October 2010
Nationality	Japanese
Fields	Physics
Alma mater	Tokyo University
Known for	Discovery of the Toda lattice.

Morikazu Toda (戸田 盛和 Toda Morikazu, 20 October 1917 – 6 October 2010) was a Japanese physicist, best known for the discovery of the Toda lattice. His main interests were in statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.

Career

After graduating from the Department of Physics, Tokyo University he became associate professor first at Keijo University and then at the Tokyo University of Education (Kyoiku University). In 1952 he was promoted professor and held subsequent positions at Chiba University, Yokohama National University, and University of the Air. In addition, he had visiting positions at São Paulo University and Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He was a professor emeritus of the Tokyo University of Education.

In 1947 he received the Mainichi Shuppan-Bunka prize for his contributions to the theory of liquids and in 1981 the Fujiwara prize for the discovery of the Toda lattice. He was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. He died of multiple organ failure on the 6th of October 2010.^[1]

See also

• Toda field theory

List of books available in English

• ^ Selected Papers of Morikazu Toda (Series in Pure Mathematics). Edited by Miki Wadati (University of Tokyo). World Scientific 1993. ISBN 978-981-02-1469-2.
• Statistical Physics I: Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences) R. Kubo, N. Saito, and M. Toda. 2nd. Ed. 1992. ISBN 3-540-53662-0.
• Statistical Physics II: Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences) M. Toda, N. Saito, and R. Kubo. 2nd. Ed. 1991. ISBN 3-540-53833-X.
• Theory of Nonlinear Lattices (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences). Springer 1989. ISBN 0-387-18327-2.
• Nonlinear Waves and Solitons. Mathematics and its Applications (Japanese Series). KTK Scientific Publishers 1989, Tokyo. ISBN 0-7923-0442-X

References

1. 物理学者・戸田盛和さん死去　「戸田格子」の数式提案, Asahi Shimbun