Iwao Hosokawa

Background

Hosokawa, Iwao was born on September 5, 1932 in Kyoto, Japan. Son of Yonezo and Yoshimi (Murasaki) Yanagawa.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Kyoto University, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, Kyoto University, 1961.

Career

Researcher, National Aerospace Laboratory, Tokyo, 1964-1969; chief rarefied gasdynamics section, National Aerospace Laboratory, Tokyo, 1964-1969; professor, Iwate U., Morioka, Japan, 1971-1988; professor, U. Electro-Comm., Tokyo, 1988-1998; professor emeritus, U. Electro-Comm., Tokyo, since 1998. Japan-Soviet exchange scholar, Moscow U., 1966. Consultant Plasma Institute of Nagoya U., Japan, 1967-1968, National Aerospace Laboratory, Japan, 1989-1993, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States, 1992-1994.

Visiting research associate, Brown U., Rhode Island, 1962-1964. Visiting senior research associate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Students Fighting Cancer, Maryland., 1969-1970, U. Tennessee Space Institute, 1970, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, 1975.

Achievements

• Iwao Hosokawa has been listed as a noteworthy physics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chairman research committee traffic control, Iwate Prefecture, Morioka, 1972-1982. Member Physical Society Japan (life), Japan Society Fluid mechanics (board directors 1996-1998, chairman organization committee annual meeting 1997, trustee since 1998).

Interests

• Avocations: classical music, traveling.

Connections

Married Keiko Komatsubara, July 31, 1948.

Father:

Yonezo Yanagawa

Mother:

Yoshimi (Murasaki) Yanagawa

Spouse:

Keiko Komatsubara