1. Kunihiko Kodaira was awarded a Fields Medal in 1954, being the first Japanese national to receive this honour.
10 Facts About Kunihiko Kodaira
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Kunihiko Kodaira graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1938 with a degree in mathematics and graduated from the physics department at the University of Tokyo in 1941.
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Kunihiko Kodaira obtained his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1949, with a thesis entitled Harmonic fields in Riemannian manifolds.
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Kunihiko Kodaira was involved in cryptographic work from about 1944, while holding an academic post in Tokyo.
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Kunihiko Kodaira was appointed Associate Professor at Princeton University in 1952 and promoted to Professor in 1955.
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Kunihiko Kodaira provided detailed studies of elliptic fibrations of surfaces over a curve, or in other language elliptic curves over algebraic function fields, a theory whose arithmetic analogue proved important soon afterwards.
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Kunihiko Kodaira left Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study in 1961, and briefly served as chair at the Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University.
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Kunihiko Kodaira was honoured with the membership of the Japan Academy, the Mathematical Society of Japan and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.
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Kunihiko Kodaira was the foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1975, member of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences in 1974 and honorary member of the London Mathematical Society in 1979.
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Kunihiko Kodaira received the Order of Culture and the Japan Academy Prize in 1957 and the Fujiwara Prize in 1975.