Background
He was born on April 1, 1917 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
He was born on April 1, 1917 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
He studied under Professor Kenjiro Kimura.
He died on April 16, 2001 at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada. He received bachelors and doctoral degrees from the Imperial University of Tokyo. His first paper was published in 1935.
He focused mostly on radio and cosmochemistry, and most of his 40 papers published prior to 1944 are about the chemistry of hot springs.
On arrival to the United States in 1949, he met with nuclear chemist, Glenn Seaborg. He became an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Arkansas in 1952, becoming a United States citizen in 1955.
In 1956, Kuroda was the first to propose natural self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions. His proposal was proven on September 1972 in the Oklo Mines of Gabon.
He became the first Edgar Wertheim Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in 1979, he officially retired from the University of Arkansas in 1987.
In 1944, he became the youngest faculty member of the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1944, and after World World War II, despite the ban on radiochemistry in Japan, he continued to study radiochemistry until 1949.