Paul Kuroda

Paul Kazuo Kuroda (1 April 1917 – 16 April 2001), was a Japanese-American chemist and nuclear scientist.

Paul Kazuo Kuroda
Born (1917-04-01)1 April 1917
Fukuoka Prefect, Empire of Japan
Died 16 April 2001(2001-04-16) (aged 84)
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Nationality Japanese
Fields Nuclear Chemistry
Doctoral advisor Kenjiro Kimura

Life

He was born on April 1, 1917 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.[1]

He died on April 16, 2001 at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada.[2]

Career

He received bachelors and doctoral degrees from the Imperial University of Tokyo. He studied under Professor Kenjiro Kimura.[1]

His first paper was published in 1935.[1] He focused mostly on radio and cosmochemistry, and most of his 40 papers published prior to 1944 are about the chemistry of hot springs. In 1944, he became the youngest faculty member of the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1944, and after WWII, despite the ban on radiochemistry in Japan, he continued to study radiochemistry until 1949.

On arrival to the United States in 1949, he met with nuclear chemist, Glenn Seaborg. He became an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Arkansas in 1952, becoming a US citizen in 1955.[1]

In 1956, Kuroda was the first to propose natural self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions. His proposal was proven on September 1972 in the Oklo Mines of Gabon.

He became the first Edgar Wertheim Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in 1979, he officially retired from the University of Arkansas in 1987.[1]

Honours

He is the winner of the Pure Chemistry Prize.[1]

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