11 Facts About Toichiro Kinoshita

Toichiro Kinoshita was a Japanese-born American theoretical physicist.

Toichiro Kinoshita studied physics at the University of Tokyo, earning his bachelor's degree in 1947 and then his PhD in 1952.

Toichiro Kinoshita became a full professor in 1963, and in 1992 he was appointed Goldwin Smith professor.

Toichiro Kinoshita was a guest professor at the University of Tokyo, at CERN, at the national laboratory for high-energy physics KEK in Japan, and at RIKEN in Japan.

Toichiro Kinoshita was known for his extensive and detailed calculations of quantum electrodynamics, the theory of the interaction of light and matter, on which physicist Abraham Pais called him the "expert among experts".

Toichiro Kinoshita is best known for his calculations of the anomalous magnetic moments of the electron and muon.

The sixth-order term consists of 72 Feynman diagrams, and Toichiro Kinoshita evaluated these to high precision numerically using computers.

Toichiro Kinoshita revised this calculation in 1995 using faster computers and higher precision computational techniques.

Toichiro Kinoshita died at his home in Amherst, Massachusetts, on March 23,2023, at the age of 98.

Toichiro Kinoshita was awarded the Sakurai Prize from the American Physical Society in 1990; the SUN-AMCO Medal from the International Union of Pure and Applied Science in 1998; the Gian Carlo Wick Gold Medal in 2010; and the Toray Science and Technology Prize in 2019.

Toichiro Kinoshita was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991.