Masao Doi

Masao Doi
HonFInstP
CitizenshipJapan
EducationDoctor of Philosophy in Engineering at the University of Tokyo, 1976
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
OccupationProfessor
EmployerNagoya University
Known forSimulation system for soft materials
Notable workThe Theory of Polymer Dynamics published in 1978
Awards2001 Polymer Physics Prize Recipient, Rheology Society of Japan, IBM Award of Science, and doctor honoris causa of Katholic University Leuven in Belgium
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Masao Doi (土井正男, Doi Masao) (born 29 March 1948) is a Professor Emeritus at Nagoya University and The University of Tokyo. He is a Fellow of the Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute.[1] In 1976, he introduced a second quantised formalism for studying reaction-diffusion systems.[2][3] In 1978 and 1979 he wrote a series of papers with Sir Sam Edwards expanding on the concept of reptation introduced by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes in 1971.[4][5][6][7] In 1996 he authored the textbook Introduction to Polymer Physics.[8]

In 2001 the American Physical Society awarded Doi the Polymer Physics Prize for "pioneering contributions to the theory of dynamics and rheology of entangled polymers and complex fluids."[9]

He was also awarded the Bingham Medal in 2001 by the Society of Rheology.[10]

In 2016, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the rheology of polymeric liquids, especially the entanglement effect in concentrated solutions and melts.

  1. ^ Home Page of Masao Doi, archived from the original on 2015-07-12, retrieved 2013-03-01
  2. ^ Doi, M. (1976), "Second quantization representation for classical many-body system", J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 9 (9): 1465, doi:10.1088/0305-4470/9/9/008
  3. ^ Doi, M. (1976), "Stochastic theory of diffusion-controlled reaction", J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 9 (9): 1479, Bibcode:1976JPhA....9.1479D, doi:10.1088/0305-4470/9/9/009
  4. ^ Doi, M.; Edwards, S. F. (1978). "Dynamics of concentrated polymer systems. Part 1.?Brownian motion in the equilibrium state". Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 2. 74: 1789–1801. doi:10.1039/f29787401789.
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  8. ^ Doi, M. (1996). Introduction to Polymer Physics. Oxford Science Publications. Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198517894.
  9. ^ 2001 Polymer Physics Prize Recipient, retrieved 2013-03-01
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