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During World War II he was the head of the Japanese Atomic Program , which was alleged to have detonated a Nuclear Weapon during testing in 1945 .

Nishina was born in Satosho , Okayama . After graduation, he became a staff member at RIKEN . In 1921 he was sent to Europe for research. He visited some European universities and institutions, including Cavendish Laboratory , Georg August University Of Göttingen , and University Of Copenhagen . In Copenhagen he did research with Niels Bohr and they became good friends. In 1928 he wrote a paper on incoherent or Compton Scattering with Oskar Klein in Copenhagen, from which the Klein-Nishina Formula derives.

In the same year he returned to Japan, where he endeavored to foster an environment for the study of Quantum Mechanics . He invited some Western scholars to Japan including Werner Heisenberg , Paul Dirac and Bohr to stimulate Japanese physicists.

His research was concerned with Cosmic Ray s and Particle Accelerator development.

In 1946 he was awarded the Order Of Culture by the Emperor Of Japan .


REFERENCE

  • http://www12.plala.or.jp/m-light/Nomenclature.htm (in Japanese)