Yuh Fukai, DSc

Professor Emeritus, Chuo University

Professional career: Professor of Physics, Chuo University (Tokyo), until his retirement in 2005, in the meanwhile served as a Visiting Professor at the Univ. of Illinois (USA), Univ. of Grenoble and Ecole Polytechnique (France), Univ. of Roma La Sapienza (Italy), and several other Universities in Japan. Still serving as visiting staff at the Univ. of Hyogo and the Institute of Industrial Science, Univ. of Tokyo.

Chief Editor of Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 1985 - 1987.

Expertise: Physics, chemistry and materials science of hydrogen in metals; Earth science, especially the history of the Earth

Publications: The Metal Hydrogen System (Springer-Verlag, 1st ed. 1993, 2nd ed. 2005)

Offers a comprehensive account of molecular hydrogen medicine

Describes the diverse therapeutic effects of hydrogen

Considers the physiological effects of hydrogen gas within the context of the evolution of life on earth

Part I What is Molecular Hydrogen Medicine?.- Chapter 1 The power of hydrogen molecules uncovered.- Chapter 2 Development of Molecular Hydrogen Medicine.- Chapter 3 From the front-line of research - Interviews.- Chapter 4 Physiological effects of the hydrogen molecule.- Chapter 5 Some fundamental properties of hydrogen and water.- Chapter 6 Functions of heavy water in living organisms.- Chapter 7 The future of Molecular Hydrogen Medicine.- Part II Tracing the History of Life and Hydrogen.- Chapter 8 The genesis of life in the world of hydrogen, Eons ago- Chapter 9 Drastic changes of living organisms in the oxygen age.- Chapter 10 Since the appearance of humans.