Yoshio Nishina - Kim, Dong-Won (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

An easy-to-read biography that analyzes Yoshio Nishina's position in and his contributions to the Japanese physics community. It examines Nishina's family and early studies and focuses on his work in quantum mechanics, particularly the Klein-Nishina formula for Compton scattering. It describes the establishment of the Nishina Laboratory at RIKEN.