Shuichi Nosé

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

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

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

References

Obituaries:

• Yosuke Kataoka; Michael L. Klein (2006). "Shuichi Nosé". Physics Today. 59: 67. doi:10.1063/1.2186290. Retrieved 2013-06-30. 
• 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.