24 Facts About Akira Hasegawa

Akira Hasegawa is a Japanese theoretical physicist and engineer who has worked in the US and Japan.

Akira Hasegawa was the first to suggest the existence of optical solitons in 1973.

Akira Hasegawa was born on June 17,1934, in Tokyo Prefecture.

Akira Hasegawa is a graduate of the Department of Communications Engineering at Osaka University, Japan and was a Fulbright student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed his Ph.

Akira Hasegawa subsequently took a post doctoral position at Bell Laboratories for six month, where he worked with Solomon J Buchsbaum.

Akira Hasegawa was an associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering Science of Osaka University from 1964 to 1968.

Akira Hasegawa rejoined Bell Laboratories in 1968, where he stayed as a distinguished member of technical staff until 1991.

Akira Hasegawa was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in 1980 as well as a visiting professor at the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University.

Akira Hasegawa was elected as Chairman of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society in 1990, when he reported to the President the importance of fusion research based on advanced fuels to avoid undesirable consequences of deuterium tritium fusion.

Akira Hasegawa worked as a professor at Himeji Dokkyo University and Kochi University of Technology and was a special consultant with NTT Japan and BTG International.

Akira Hasegawa was born to Japanese parents who were divorced when he was very young.

Akira Hasegawa was primarily raised by his mother, Kaoru Takata, who was a graduate of Science and Mathematics Department in Nara Women's University His mother was a strong influence in developing his interest in mathematics.

Akira Hasegawa played on a baseball team while at Nagasaka Junior High School.

Akira Hasegawa spent all of his scholarship money to purchase a large collection of jazz records, extending from Bix Beiderbecke to Miles Davis.

In March 1961, prior to moving to the United States, Akira Hasegawa was married to Miyoko, his current wife.

Akira Hasegawa plays tennis but now mostly enjoys playing golf.

Akira Hasegawa currently enjoys being a member of the Rotary Club of Kyoto-East and publishing books on various non-science themes including history, finance, and culture.

Akira Hasegawa believes that Japan is a country established on a unique matriarchal culture during the Jomon period, some ten thousands of years BC.

Akira Hasegawa has made a number of seminal contributions in the subject of waves and turbulence in plasmas as well as in information transfer in optical fibers.

In 1968, while at Bell Laboratories, Akira Hasegawa joined a group in charge of space plasmas.

In September 1991, Akira Hasegawa took a position of Professor of Communications Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at Osaka University and started a new group of optical soliton based communication systems.

Akira Hasegawa established international as well as domestic research groups that concentrated on ultra-high speed communications based on optical solitons.

Akira Hasegawa shared with Kuniaki Mima and Pat Diamond the 2011 European Physical Society Hannes Alfven Prize.

Akira Hasegawa has the honor of receiving the 2008 Japan Academy Prize, and in 2010 The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon from the Japanese Emperor.