Kazumi Maki (kanji: 真木 和美,[1] kana: まき かずみ Maki Kazumi, January 27, 1936, Takamatsu, Japan – September 10, 2008, Los Angeles) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for his research in "superconductivity, superfluid ³He, and quasi‑one‑dimensional (1D) materials.
[2] During WW II he with his family moved to a rural area because of a scarcity of food and the danger of aerial attack.
[3] At Kyoto University he received his Ph.D. in 1964 with a thesis on theoretical particle physics, written under the supervision of Hideki Yukawa.
In 1968 he published his theoretical analysis predicting an anomalous increase in electrical conductivity caused by superconducting fluctuations just above the critical temperature for a low-temperature superconductor.
[2] From 1991 until the end of his life, he worked on high-temperature superconductors and investigated the effects of anisotropic ordering parameters on the transport and magnetic properties both in the superconducting state and in the pseudo-gap phase.