Yoshihide Kozai
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Yoshihide Kozai (born 1 April 1928) is a Japanese astronomer specialising in celestial mechanics. He is best known for discovering, simultaneously with Michael Lidov, the Kozai mechanism, for which he received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy in 1979.[1]
From 1988 to 1991, he was the president of the International Astronomical Union.[2]
In 2009, he won the Decoration of Cultural Merit from the Japanese government.[3]
The asteroid 3040 Kozai is named in his honour.
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