[3] He received bachelors and doctoral degrees from the Imperial University of Tokyo.
[1] He focused mostly on radio and cosmochemistry, and most of his 40 papers published prior to 1944 are about the chemistry of hot springs.
On arrival to the United States in 1949, he met with nuclear chemist, Glenn Seaborg.
[1] In 1956, Kuroda was the first to propose that natural self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions were possible.
He became the first Edgar Wertheim Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in 1979, he officially retired from the University of Arkansas in 1987.