Shinichiro TOMONAGA, who also won the Nobel Prize in Physics, was his senior by one year at the junior high school and a classmate in the Third High School under the old system of education (present Kyoto University, general education course) and Kyoto Imperial University.
同じくノーベル物理学賞を受けた朝永振一郎は一中で一年上、三高・京大では同期だった。