Heat Transfer in JapanR. J. Goldstein
Regents’ Professor
James J. Ryan Professor and Head
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
I would like to congratulate the members of the Heat Transfer Society of Japan on their 30th Anniversary.
I have had many interactions with heat transfer researchers and practitioners from Japan. My first visit to Japan wasin 1967 for the Japan Semi-International Conference on Heat Transfer. At that time I visited a number of Universities
including the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Fukuoka University, and Hokkaido University. It was anopportunity to see the excellent facilities that were being operated and to meet senior and young researchers,including Professor Masaru Hirata of the University of Tokyo, and Professor Kenjiro Suzuki of the University ofKyoto who have been close friends over the years.
Since that time I have returned to Japan on many occasions. These include the 5th international Heat Transfer
Conference in 1974, when my first climb of Mt. Fuji was frustrated by the need to return to a Conference banquet.
In 1980 I participated in the Japan/US joint Heat Transfer Seminar in Tokyo and in 1987 the 2nd International
Symposium on Transport Phenomena in Turbulent Flow. In 1989 I had the honor of receiving a grant from the Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science to work in Japan for three months. I was centered at the University of Tokyothrough the courtesy of Dr. Hirata and Dr. Kasagi, and I was able to visit many industrial and university laboratories.
At this time I also met some of my close colleagues who were formally students and researchers at the Universityof Minnesota. During that stay I learned much about Japanese education from kindergarten up. I was also able
finally to “conquer” Mt. Fuji accompanied by my son Benjamin and Dr. Tokuda.
Over these many years I have been impressed with Japan’s advances in science and technology and the high qualityof students, faculty, and researchers. Japan has progressed greatly in a number of areas of technology including thecoming of age of outstanding researchers. Generations of outstanding leaders are taking their place in the worldcommunity of Heat Transfer. I look forward to many more years of pleasant and fruitful cooperation with myJapanese colleagues.
My students from Japan who received degrees at Minnesota have always been very close to me. These include;
Sadasuke Ito, Kanichi Kadotani, Toyoaki Yoshida, and the late Tetsuro Aiba, Other close contacts are with those
who spent a year or more working in our laboratories: Toshie Abe, Yutaka Asako, Masaru Hirata, Ryoji Ishiguro,Kazuhiko Kudo, Hisashi Kuriyama, Takashi Masuoka, Masahide Miyamoto, Hiroaki Nouse, Takehito Saito,
Shinobu Tokuda, Kahoru Torii, Akina Tsuchida and Shinichiro Yamazaki. These researchers and colleagues worked
with me at Minnesota and are my most important contacts with Japan. They have probably taught me far more thanI ever could teach them.
Of course there are so many others with whom I have close ties. These include Professors Katto, Kasagi, Hirata andNakajima and the late Professor Nishiwaki from Tokyo University; Professors Fujii, Fujita, and Nishikawa fromKyushu University; Professors Echigo, Hijikata, Mori, and Nakayama from Tokyo Institute of Technology, andProfessors Ogino and Suzuki from Kyoto University. To these and other colleagues, to whom I apologize for notincluding them herein, (truly a sin of accidental omission not commission) I give my thanks and great appreciation
for your fine progress in the Heat Transfer area and for helping me learn more about heat transfer and Japan.
To all in the Japan Heat Transfer community, I salute you and wish you continued great success.
Dennetsu Kenkyu, Vol. 32, No. 124, January 1993

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国際功績賞
R. J. Goldstein（ミネソタ大学・教授）
熱工学，伝熱工学に関する学術的貢献，ならびに我国の熱工学研究者に対する学問的，社会的貢献．
TED Newsletter No.25 July 1998
https://www.jsme.or.jp/ted/PDF/NL25.pdf