Yoshihide Kozai

Yoshihide Kozai
Born (1928-04-01) April 1, 1928
Tokyo
Institutions
Alma mater
Known for Kozai mechanism
Notable awards

Yoshihide Kozai (born 1 April 1928) is a Japanese astronomer specialising in celestial mechanics. He is best known for discovering, simultaneously with Michael Lidov, the Kozai mechanism, for which he received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy in 1979.[1]

From 1988 to 1991, he was the president of the International Astronomical Union.[2]

In 1989, he received the Brouwer Award of the American Astronomical Society.[3]

In 2009, he won the Decoration of Cultural Merit from the Japanese government.[4]

The asteroid 3040 Kozai is named in his honour.

References

  1. ↑ Japan Academy, 61st-70th; retrieved 2011-08-15
  2. ↑ IAU Information Bulletin no. 104 (PDF). June 2009.
  3. ↑ "The DDA/AAS Brouwer Award". American Astronomical Society/Division on Dynamical Astronomy. Retrieved 2014-12-05.
  4. ↑ "平成21年度　文化功労者" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-06-24.
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