Yoji Kondo
Astrophysicist
SIGMA
Dr. Yoji Kondo, who writes under the pen name " Eric Kotani, " is an astrophysicist, and was Director of the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) geosynchronous satellite observatory at Goddard Space Flight Center for 15 years. He headed the astrophysics laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center during the Apollo and Skylab missions. Yoji is Past President of the IAU Commission on Astronomy from Space and Past President of the IAU Commission on Close Binary Stars. A Fellow of the AAAS, he has taught astrophysics and the impact of technology on society at major universities. He has published 220 scientific papers and edited nine books, and is the author of six science fiction novels and editor of one anthology. His avocations are judo (6th degree black-belt) and aikido (6th degree black belt), and he has been teaching the martial arts for several decades. Dr. Kondo is a recipient of the recent Isaac Asimov Memorial Award. The previous recipients include Stephen Hawking and Watson, the DNA discoverer.
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