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Tihiro Ohkawa was born on 3 January, 1928 in Kanazawa, Japan, is a Japanese physicist. Discover Tihiro Ohkawa's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 3 January 1928
Birthday 3 January
Birthplace Kanazawa, Japan
Date of death 27 September, 2014
Died Place La Jolla, California
Nationality Japan

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Tihiro Ohkawa (大河千弘) was a Japanese physicist whose field of work was in plasma physics and fusion power.

He was a pioneer in developing ways to generate electricity by nuclear fusion when he worked at General Atomics.

1928

Ohkawa was born in Kanazawa on January 3, 1928.

1950

He studied physics at the University of Tokyo in 1950, and was a member of the Yoshio Nishina group for researching cosmic altitude radiation for 16 years even during the World War II.

He was a researcher at CERN and at Midwestern State University before becoming a professor at the University of Tokyo.

1955

In 1955, Ohkawa independently came up with idea of the fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator (FFAG) together with Keith Symon and Andrei Kolomensky, which led to the development of the first prototype in 1956 by the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA).

1960

In 1960, he went to General Atomics, where he led a fusion research project and later became vice president and deputy chairman of the board.

He then developed a procedure to stabilize instabilities in tokamaks using multipole magnetic fields with Donald Kerst in 1960, which was then later confirmed by experiments.

1968

In 1968, Ohkawa demonstrated that the plasma-current multipole configuration used to trap plasmas was stable, which resulted in the development of a series of tokamaks with vertically elongated plasma cross sections called the doublet.

This eventually led to General Atomics' DIII-D tokamak, which influenced the design and concept of ITER.

Ohkawa was also involved in the use of radioactive isotopes in the separation of nuclear isotopes from nuclear waste (at the Archimedes Technology Group in San Diego, which he founded).

Ohkawa holds over 50 patents, in areas such as tile accelerators, fusion technology and biotechnology.

In 1968, Ohkawa became a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

1979

In 1979, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for "his development of multi-current or doublet approach to the design of tokamaks with non-circular cross sections and for investigation of plasma confinement in toroidal multipoles".

1984

He also received the 1984 Fusion Power Associates Leadership Award.

1994

In 1994, Ohkawa left General Atomics to found TOYO Technologies.

2004

In 2004, he was co-founder of Nano Fusion Technologies with Masano Nishikawa for the development of microfluidics.

He was also a physics professor at the University of California, San Diego.

2014

Ohkawa died September 27, 2014, in La Jolla, California, at the age of 86.