Jun Kondō Explained

Jun Kondō
Birth Date:	6 February 1930
Birth Place:	Tokyo, Japan
Occupation:	Physicist
Alma Mater:	University of Tokyo
Organization:	United States National Academy of Sciences Japan Academy
Awards:	Imperial Prize of Japan Academy (1973) Order of Culture (2020)

Jun Kondō (近藤淳 Kondō Jun, 6 February 1930 – 11 March 2022) was a Japanese theoretical physicist.

His research is noted for the Kondo effect. He was an emeritus fellow of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Kondō died from pneumonia on 11 March 2022, at the age of 92.^[1]

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
1979 Asahi Prize
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
2001–20??: Special Adviser, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
2020 Order of Culture

Fermi surface effects: proceedings of the Tsukuba Institute, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, 27–29 August 1987 (1988)
The Physics of Dilute Magnetic Alloys (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

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