13 Facts About Tihiro Ohkawa

Tihiro Ohkawa was a Japanese physicist whose field of work was in plasma physics and fusion power.

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

Tihiro Ohkawa 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.

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

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

Tihiro Ohkawa was a physics professor at the University of California, San Diego.

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

Tihiro Ohkawa 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.

In 1968, Tihiro 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.

Tihiro Ohkawa was involved in the use of radioactive isotopes in the separation of nuclear isotopes from nuclear waste.

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

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

Tihiro Ohkawa received the 1984 Fusion Power Associates Leadership Award.