Early Years

Childhood in Japan

Dr. Tihiro Ohkawa was born in 1928 in Kanazawa City, Japan. He was the oldest son of his father, a professor of German literature at the Fourth High School in his hometown, where Tihiro would eventually study.
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Education and Research

After WWII, Ohkawa was admitted to the prestigious University of Tokyo to study nuclear physics under Prof. Goro Miyamoto, a protégé of Prof. Ryokichi Sagane, who had in turn been a student of Dr. Nishina.
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Flourishing in the World

Around the time that Ohkawa was working on his the FFAG concept, a university colleague returned from a visit to the U.S. He mentioned to Ohkawa that another group, the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA), was also working on the FFAG idea.
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