Tihiro Ohkawa

Tihiro Ohkawa
Born(1928-01-03)January 3, 1928
DiedSeptember 27, 2014(2014-09-27) (aged 86)
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
AwardsJames Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1979)
Scientific career
FieldsPlasma Physics

Tihiro Ohkawa (Japanese: 大河千弘, Hepburn: Ōkawa Chihiro; January 3, 1928 - September 27, 2014) was a Japanese physicist whose field of work was in plasma physics and fusion power. He was a pioneer in developing ways to generate electricity by nuclear fusion when he worked at General Atomics. Ohkawa died September 27, 2014, in La Jolla, California, at the age of 86.