Jun Kondo

Jun Kondo (近藤 淳 Kondō Jun, born on February 6, 1930) is a theoretical physicist in Japan. His research is famous for the Kondo effect.

Honours and appointments

• 1959 Dr. of Science, University of Tokyo
• 1959 Research Associate, Nihon University
• 1960 Research Associate, Institute for Solid-State Physics, University of Tokyo
• 1963 Research Scientist, Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL) [became AIST]
• 1968 Nishina Memorial Prize
• 1973 Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy
• 1984 Fellow, ETL (dual appointment)
• 1987 Fritz London Memorial Prize
• 1990 Professor, Toho University
• 1995 Emeritus Professor, Toho University
• 1997 Member of the Japan Academy
• 2001–present: Special Adviser, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

See also

• Kondo effect
• Kondo insulator
• Kondo model

Books available in English

• Fermi surface effects: proceedings of the Tsukuba Institute, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, August 27–29, 1987 (1988)
• The Physics of Dilute Magnetic Alloys (Cambridge University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1-107-02418-2

External links

• Jun Kondo's web page
• Kondo Effect – 40 Years after the Discovery – special issue of the Journal of the Physical Society of Japan