1. Letter, May 5, 1933, Y. Nishina to G. Hevesy, in G. Hevesy–Y. Nishina: Correspondence, 1928–1949 (Tokyo: Nishina Memorial Foundation, 1983), pp. 10–11.
2. He does, however, lend his name to the “Klein-Nishina formula,” which he and O. Klein arrived at in 1928 to describe the differential cross-section of Compton scattering, enabling one to calculate the probability or frequency of scattering of high-energy quanta by electrons. See Yūji Yazaki, “Klein-Nishina kōshiki dōshutsu no katei (1): Riken no Nishina shiryō o chūshin ni” (“How was the Klein-Nishina Formula Derived? (Part 1): Based on the Nishina Archives at Riken”), Kagakushi kenkyū (Studies in the History of Science), series 2, vol. 31, no. 182 (Summer 1992), pp. 81–91.
3. Joseph M. Goedertier, A Dictionary of Japanese History (New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1968), p. 35.
4. Fumio Yamazaki, “A Short Biography of Dr. Yoshio Nishina,” in Sin-itirō Tomonaga and Hidehiko Tamaki (eds), Nishina Yoshio: Denki to kaisō (Yoshio Nishina: Biography and, Reminiscences) (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 1952), pp. 3–15.
5. Also, Tetsuo Tsuji, “The Life of Yoshio Nishina” (in Japanese), Nihon Butsuri Gakkaishi, vol. 45, no. 10 (October 1990), pp. 712–19.