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TABATA, Tatsuo (多幡 達夫)
Japanese physicist, Researcher

Born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, April 17, 1935; son of Kunika and Chiyoko (Kawamura) Tabata; married Teiko Murata, Nov. 6, 1960; children: Yuko, Yasuko

BS, Kyoto University (Japan), 1958; MS, 1960; DSc, 1967

Researcher Radiation Center of Osaka Prefecture, Sakai, 1960–69; senior researcher, 1969–85; chief researcher, 1985–90; professor Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, 1990–99; emeritus professor at Osaka Prefecture University (presently Osaka Metropolitan University), 1999–; part-time researcher Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (presently Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Naka-gun, Ibaraki Prefecture, 1984–99; consultant Osaka Nuclear Science Association, Osaka, 2000–16

Author: Passage through Spacetime: Random Writing of a Physicist, Self-published with coordination by Jupiter, Tokyo, 2009

Partial author: Brush Up English for Science, Shokabo, Tokyo, 1989 (in Japanese); Radiation Dosimetry of Electron Beams for Radiation Processing, Chijin-Shokan, Tokyo, 1990 (in Japanese); Left-Handers in Mirrors: Mirror Reversal Puzzle, Nakanishiya, Kyoto, 2004 (in Japanese)

Contributor: more than 90 articles to more than 20 professional journals in the fields of computers, physics, applied physics, medical physics, nuclear engineering, biology, and psychology

Recipient: Takamine prize, Dr. Takamine Jokichi Memorial Foundation, 1953

Grantee: Defect Detection by Electron Beams, Science and Technology Agency of Japanese Government, 1982–85

Academic Membership (formerly): American Physical Society, Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Physical Society of Japan, The Japan Scientists’ Association, The Japan Society of Applied Physics

Non-academic Membership (including former ones): Citizens’ Association for Fostering the Culture of Sakai, Citizens’ Group to Study Hideki Yukawa, Friends of Tuva (Japan), Gakushikai [The University Graduates’ Society]

[Quoted and modified from “Tatsauo Tabata” in Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 33rd Edition (2016)]

See, for a more detailed profile, https://prabook.com/web/tatsuo.tabata/353033.

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