NDLI: In memoriam Professor Ko Saito (1941-2004)

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Author	Koike, Tohru
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	Professor Ko Saito of Hiroshima University suffering from hepatic cancer passed away on May 20, 2004 at the age of 63, one year before his planned retirement in March 2005. He graduated from Hiroshima University in 1964, supervised by Professor Yamamura, and started his career in high-temperature chemical reaction and was appointed to be a Research Associate of the Department of Chemistry at Hiroshima University in 1967. He received a Doctor of Science Degree in chemistry in 1973 and spent his study leave from May 1980 to March 1981 at the University of Essex UK and worked with Professor JN Bradley. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986 and then to Professor of the Hiroshima University in 1990.He had one hundred paper publications in well-known scientific journals, the Proceedings of International Symposia on Shock Waves (ISSW) and was an author of a Japanese text book on physical chemistry. He proved himself as an experimentalist as well as a theoretician and often told students that progress in chemical reaction studies should be maintained by conducting both experiments and analyses based on quantum chemistry. He taught a physical chemistry course to all first-year students introducing rigorously his approach.He devoted himself to identify and characterize features of molecules suddenly exposed to shock created high temperatures and particularly concentrated in thermal decomposition processes of carboxylic acid groups. These acid groups are found to decompose molecular and quantum chemical analyses supports the observation. This is one of the highlights of his achievements.He participated regularly in International and Domestic Shock Wave Symposia and intensively presented important results he and his group discovered. His latest works are presented in the Proceedings of ISSW24 held in Beijing, July 2004. Professor Saito was not only an educator but also an active chemical shock wave researcher serving continuously for 40 years and immensely contributed to establish the academic reputation of the Department of Chemistry of Hiroshima University. Undergraduate and graduate students and post doctoral fellows he once supervised are today remembering his philosophy in their mind and try to widen the world of shock wave chemistry.
Starting Page	135
Ending Page	135
Page Count	1
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ISSN	09381287
Journal	Shock Waves
Volume Number	14
Issue Number	1-2
e-ISSN	14322153
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2005-01-01
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics Fluids Thermodynamics Acoustics Condensed Matter Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Physics and Astronomy Mechanical Engineering

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