Radiochemistry Pioneer Paul Kuroda Hand Signed Announcement Dated 1987

  

"Radiochemistry" Paul Kuroda Hand Signed Announcement Dated 1987. 16 April 2001, was a Japanese-American chemist and nuclear scientist.

Born on April 1, 1917 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. He died on April 16, 2001 at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada. Received bachelors and doctoral degrees from the Imperial University of Tokyo. He studied under Professor Kenjiro Kimura.

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. In 1944, he became the youngest faculty member of the Imperial.

University of Tokyo, and after World War II, despite the ban on. Japan, he continued to study radiochemistry until 1949. United States in 1949, he met with nuclear chemist. He became an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the. University of Arkansas in 1952, becoming a US citizen in 1955.

In 1956, Kuroda was the first to propose that. Such a reactor was discovered in.

He became the first Edgar Wertheim Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in. 1979, he officially retired from the University of Arkansas in 1987.