(born 29 March 1948) is a Professor Emeritus at
Nagoya University
, abbreviated to or NU, is a Japanese national research university located in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya.
It was established in 1939 as the last of the nine Imperial Universities in the then Empire of Japan, and is now a Designated National Universit ...
and The
University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...
. He is a Fellow of the Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute.
In 1976, he introduced a second quantised formalism for studying
reaction-diffusion systems.
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
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (; 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.
Education and early life
He was born in Paris, France, and was home-schooled to the age of 12. By the age of ...
in 1971.
In 1996 he authored the textbook ''Introduction to Polymer Physics''.
In 2001 the
American Physical Society
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awarded Doi the Polymer Physics Prize for "pioneering contributions to the theory of dynamics and rheology of entangled polymers and complex
fluids."
He was also awarded the
Bingham Medal in 2001 by the
Society of Rheology.
In 2016, he was elected a member of the
National Academy of Engineering
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for contributions to the rheology of polymeric liquids, especially the entanglement effect in concentrated solutions and melts.
References
Living people
Academic staff of Nagoya University
University of Tokyo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Japanese scientists
Polymer scientists and engineers
1948 births
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