Education
Husimi studied at the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1933.
伏見康治
Husimi studied at the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1933.
Husimi trees in graph theory, and the Husimi Q representation in quantum mechanics, are named after him. He spent a year there as an assistant, and then moved to Osaka University in 1934, where he soon began working with Seishi Kikuchi. At Osaka, he became Dean of the Faculty of Science.
He moved to Nagoya University in 1961, and directed the plasma institute there.
He retired in 1973, and became a professor emeritus of both Nagoya and Osaka. Konuma, Michiji; Otsuka, Masuhiko (May 2009), "Kodi Husimi and "science and society"", Nippon Butsuri Gakkai-Shi (in Japanese) 64 (5): 357–362.
Husimi was an early member of the Science Council of Japan, joining it in 1949, and it was largely through his efforts that the Science Council in 1954 issued a statement proposing principles for the peaceful use of nuclear power and opposing the continued existence of nuclear weapons.