About
Hiroto Kono
Hiroto Kono
I am a Ph.D. candidate at Tokyo Institute of Technology (and formerly a visiting student researcher at UC Berkeley) studying history of science and technology, especially of physical sciences. My Ph.D. project focuses on the development of the sciences of matter in Japan, especially on the history of Busseiron (物性論). Related to properties of matter, this research field emerged in the wartime isolated from the international community and later developed into a major sub-discipline at an intersection of physics and chemistry that is unique to Japan.My master thesis analyzed the Japanese theoretical physicist Ryogo Kubo, whose name is widely associated with the linear response theory in statistical mechanics. Drawing from his unpublished manuscripts, I examined the trajectory of his learning and research in the wartime.
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