Rikitake family archive, Box 119, Folder “Shoko Esumi”, Item 68: A photograph of Shoko Esumi at the 1968 Tokyo International Trade Fair.
The name is most famously associated with Tsuneji Rikitake (1921–2004) , a Japanese geophysicist who proposed the "Rikitake two-disk dynamo" in 1958. This model was a milestone in chaos theory, demonstrating polarity reversals in Earth’s magnetic field through a pair of coupled dynamos. Rikitake No.119 Shoko Esumi.68
Rikitake family archive, Box 119, Folder “Shoko Esumi”, Item 68: A photograph of Shoko Esumi at the 1968 Tokyo International Trade Fair.
The name is most famously associated with Tsuneji Rikitake (1921–2004) , a Japanese geophysicist who proposed the "Rikitake two-disk dynamo" in 1958. This model was a milestone in chaos theory, demonstrating polarity reversals in Earth’s magnetic field through a pair of coupled dynamos.