Shuichi Nosé

Shuichi Nosé (能勢 修一, Nose Shūichi, June 17, 1951 – August 17, 2005) was a Japanese physicist.

Shuichi Nosé
Born	June 17, 1951 Kyotango, Kyoto, Japan
Died	August 17, 2005 (aged 54) Yokohama, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Known for	Nosé-Hoover thermostat
Scientific career
Fields	Physics

Nosé is best known for his two 1984 papers in which he proposed a method to specify the temperature of molecular dynamics. It was later improved by William G. Hoover, and is known as the Nosé–Hoover thermostat.

Publications

• Nosé, Shūichi (1984). "A molecular dynamics method for simulations in the canonical ensemble". Mol. Phys. 52 (2): 255. doi:10.1080/00268978400101201.
• Nosé, Shuichi (1984). "A unified formulation of the constant temperature molecular dynamics methods" (PDF). J. Chem. Phys. 81: 511. doi:10.1063/1.447334.

References

Obituaries:

• Yosuke Kataoka; Michael L. Klein (2006). "Shuichi Nosé". Physics Today. 59 (2): 67. doi:10.1063/1.2186290.
• 片岡 洋右 (Yosuke Kataoka) (2006). 能勢修一さんの足跡をたどる [Retracing the footprints of Shuichi Nosé]. CICSJ Bulletin (in Japanese). 24: 6.
• "Nosé Shuichi, In Memoriam" by William Graham Hoover

External links

• The recipient of the 3rd Science Prize of IBM Japan (Japanese) - Awarded for Nose's thermostat.
• "Theoretical Physics Group" (in Japanese). Keio University. Archived from the original on 2012-09-10. - Some of notes of Nosé before his death are available.