Claim: Kyoto Prize awardee and Japanese physicist Izuo Hayashi graduated from the University of Tokyo defending his PhD in 1962 and stayed for a year at MIT.
Evidence: Izuo Hayashi (林 厳雄, Hayashi Izuo) (May 1, 1922 – September 26, 2005) was a Japanese physicist. Hayashi was born in Tokyo in 1922 and graduated from the faculty of science, University of Tokyo in 1946. After the PhD defense, he stayed for a year at MIT, and between 1964 and 1971 worked at Bell Labs on semiconductor lasers. He worked as assistant professor at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the same university and defended his PhD in 1962. Kyoto Prize, Japan (2001)