
Yoshihide Kozai
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 6 years ago |
Date of birth | April 1,1928 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Tokyo |
Japan | |
Date of died | February 5,2018 |
Died | Tokyo |
Japan | |
Alma mater | The University of Tokyo |
Known for | Kozai mechanism |
Institutions | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan |
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | |
Education | The University of Tokyo |
Awards | Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy |
Brouwer Award | |
Person of Cultural Merit | |
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ID | 1096936 |
Yoshihide Kozai Life story
Yoshihide Kozai was a Japanese astronomer specialising in celestial mechanics. He is best known for discovering, simultaneously with Michael Lidov, the Kozai mechanism, for which he received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy in 1979.