Teppei Katori: Becoming American
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
A Japanese particle physicist struggles to find his place (and learn English) in the American midwest. Teppei Katori is an experimental particle physicist and a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. His major interest is neutrino physics, especially neutrino interaction measurements on nuclear targets, and tests of space-time symmetry with neutrinos. Currently he works on two neutrino projects: the T2K experiment in Japan, and the IceCube experiment in Antarctica. He is native Japanese, and went to Indiana University for his PhD, then worked as an MIT scientist at Fermilab, near Chicago, USA.
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:33.9 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.4 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:50.3 | Hi, everyone. |
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| 1:07.8 | This week's story is from Tepe Cotori. It was recorded in March 2015 at the book club in London. |
| 1:22.5 | I'm from Japan. So today's my story is largely based on my experience in my PhD in America. |
| 1:30.0 | I was in Chicago last 12 years on my PhD and then I worked in five years and finally I end up here. |
| 1:36.8 | So I came from Japan to America and finally came to UK. |
| 1:42.2 | So that's what my story is about. I was in Japan. |
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