Ken'ichi Nomoto

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Physics in Japan Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Physics in Japan Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Physics in Japan Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Physics in Japan Leader Award
• 2019 - Hans A. Bethe Prize, American Physical Society For lasting contributions to our understanding of the nuclear astrophysics of the universe, including stellar evolution, the synthesis of new elements, the theory of core-collapse and thermonuclear supernovae, and gamma-ray bursts.

Overview

Best Publications

• An Unusual Supernova in the Error Box of the Gamma-Ray Burst of 25 April 1998

  T. J. Galama;P. M. Vreeswijk;J. van Paradijs;J. van Paradijs;C. Kouveliotou;C. Kouveliotou

  2519
  Citations

• Accreting white dwarf models for type I supernovae. III. Carbon deflagration supernovae

  K. Nomoto;F. K. Thielemann;K. Yokoi

  2076
  Citations

• Nucleosynthesis in Chandrasekhar Mass Models for Type Ia Supernovae and Constraints on Progenitor Systems and Burning-Front Propagation

  K.Iwamoto;F.Brachwitz;K.Nomoto;N.Kishimoto

  1861
  Citations

• Nucleosynthesis in Chandrasekhar Mass Models for Type Ia Supernovae and Constraints on Progenitor Systems and Burning-Front Propagation

  Koichi Iwamoto;Franziska Brachwitz;Ken ichi Nomoto;Nobuhiro Kishimoto

  1566
  Citations

• Accreting white dwarf models for type I supernovae. I. Presupernova evolution and triggering mechanisms

  K. Nomoto

  1040
  Citations

• Core-Collapse Supernovae and Their Ejecta

  Friedrich Karl Thielemann;Ken'ichi Nomoto;Masa Aki Hashimoto

  1009
  Citations

• Nucleosynthesis in Stars and the Chemical Enrichment of Galaxies

  Ken'ichi Nomoto;Chiaki Kobayashi;Nozomu Tominaga

  970
  Citations

• A hypernova model for the supernova associated with the gamma ray burst of 25 April 1998

  K. Iwamoto;P. A. Mazzali;K. Nomoto;H. Umeda

  955
  Citations

• Galactic Chemical Evolution: Carbon through Zinc

  Chiaki Kobayashi;Hideyuki Umeda;Ken ichi Nomoto;Nozomu Tominaga

  869
  Citations

• Nucleosynthesis yields of core-collapse supernovae and hypernovae, and galactic chemical evolution

  Ken'ichi Nomoto;Nozomu Tominaga;Hideyuki Umeda;Chiaki Kobayashi

  869
  Citations

• Evolution of 8-10 solar mass stars toward electron capture supernovae. I - Formation of electron-degenerate O + NE + MG cores.

  K. Nomoto

  811
  Citations

• Nucleosynthesis of Zinc and Iron Peak Elements in Population III Type II Supernovae: Comparison with Abundances of Very Metal Poor Halo Stars

  Hideyuki Umeda;Ken’ichi Nomoto

  787
  Citations

• Nucleosynthetic signatures of the first stars

  Anna Frebel;Wako Aoki;Norbert Christlieb;Hiroyasu Ando

  730
  Citations

• Nucleosynthesis of Zinc and Iron-Peak Elements in Pop III Type II Supernovae : Comparison with abundances of Very Metal-Poor Halo Stars

  Hideyuki Umeda;Ken'ichi Nomoto

  710
  Citations

• Accreting white dwarf models for CAL 83, CAL 87 and other ultrasoft X-ray sources in the LMC

  E. P. J. Van Den Heuvel;D. Bhattacharya;K. Nomoto;S. A. Rappaport

  705
  Citations

• An optical supernova associated with the X-ray flash XRF 060218.

  E. Pian;E. Pian;P. A. Mazzali;N. Masetti;P. Ferrero

  680
  Citations

• First-generation black-hole-forming supernovae and the metal abundance pattern of a very iron-poor star

  Hideyuki Umeda;Ken'ichi Nomoto

  620
  Citations

• Explosive nucleosynthesis in carbon deflagration models of Type I supernovae

  F.-K. Thielemann;K. Nomoto;K. Yokoi

  614
  Citations

• Dust in the Early Universe: Dust Formation in the Ejecta of Population III Supernovae

  Takaya Nozawa;Takashi Kozasa;Hideyuki Umeda;Keiichi Maeda

  613
  Citations

• A WIDE SYMBIOTIC CHANNEL TO TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE

  Izumi Hachisu;Mariko Kato;Ken' ichi Nomoto

  596
  Citations