Kotaro Honda was taught by what physicist who was a pioneer of Japanese physics during the Meiji period?
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Kotaro Honda Kotaro Honda (本多 光太郎, "Honda Kōtarō", born on February 23, 1870 in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture – February 12, 1954) was a Japanese scientist and inventor. He invented KS steel (initials from Kichiei Sumitomo), which is a type of magnetic resistant steel that is three times more resistant than tungsten steel. He later improved upon the steel, creating NKS steel. The NKS steel was mentioned by Taiichi Ohno in his book, as being one of the Japanese materials development results after the Second world war. He was awarded the Culture Award and the Big Asahi Ribbon of the First Class. He was taught by the famous Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka at the University of Tokyo. He was one of the first persons to be awarded the Order of Culture when it was established in 1937, being conferred with the honor in 1951. He was posthumously awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun. He participated in establishing the (千葉工業大学, "Chiba Institute of Technology") from 1940.
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Hantaro Nagaoka Hantaro Nagaoka (長岡 半太郎 , Nagaoka Hantarō , August 19, 1865 – December 11, 1950) was a Japanese physicist and a pioneer of Japanese physics during the Meiji period.
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Kunitomo Ikkansai Kunitomo Kosunaki (国友 一貫斎 , November 21, 1778 – December 26, 1840) was a Japanese gun manufacturer of the early 19th century, who, after having spent several months in Edo, where he could get accustomed with Dutch wares, built Japan's first reflective telescope in 1831. It was of the Gregorian type.
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Yoshio Koide Yoshio Koide (小出 義夫 , Koide Yoshio , born May 16, 1942 in Kanazawa, Ishikawa) is a Japanese theoretical physicist specializing in particle physics. Koide is famous for his eponymous Koide formula, which some physicists think has great importance while other physicists contend that the formula is merely a numerical coincidence.
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Kinjiro Okabe Kinjiro Okabe (岡部 金治郎 , Okabe Kinjirō , March 27, 1896 – April 8, 1984) was a Japanese electrical engineering researcher and professor who made major contributions to magnetron and radar development. He did work after the Second World War on medical instruments using ultrasounds.
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Kisaburo Osawa Kisaburo Osawa (Japanese: 大澤喜三郎 , Hepburn: Ōsawa Kisaburō , 1910 – May 26, 1991) was an influential aikido teacher who taught for many years at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo and was a close advisor to Kisshomaru Ueshiba.
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Kenichi Honda Kenichi Honda (本多健一, August 23, 1925 – February 26, 2011) was a Japanese chemist. He made a significant contribution to the discovery and characterization of photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide (TiO), for which he shared the 2004 Japan Prize with his former student Akira Fujishima.
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Nishi Amane Nishi Amane (西 周 , March 7, 1829 – January 30, 1897) was a philosopher in Meiji period Japan who helped introduce Western philosophy into mainstream Japanese education.
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Yoshiro Okabe Yoshiro Okabe (岡部 芳郎 , Okabe Yoshiro , April 9, 1884 – March 17, 1945) was the only Japanese assistant of Thomas Edison. He worked at Menlo Park from 1904 to 1914. After returning to Japan, Okabe made the short sound film "Katyusha" (leading actress:Sumako Matsui) using Edison's kinetoscope. He died in 1945 in Kobe in a U.S. air strike.
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Yamagata Bantō Yamagata Bantō (山片 蟠桃 , 1748–1821) was a well-known resident of Osaka who was both a scholar and a merchant. He was the able head clerk of the money exchange merchant Masuya. He studied Confucianism from Nakai Chikuzan and his brother Nakai Riken, and astronomy from Asada Goryu at the Kaitokudō School during its golden age. Despite his poor eyesight, he devoted 18 years to writing the book titled "Yumenoshiro" or "Instead of Dreams" which had as many as 12 volumes. In this book he supported the heliocentric theory, criticized the age of gods and advocated atheism. He played a pioneering role of bringing about modern thought in Japan and helped move it forward from its age old feudal system.
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Hiroomi Umezawa Hiroomi Umezawa (梅沢 博臣 , Umezawa Hiroomi ) (September 20, 1924 – March 24, 1995) was a physicist and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is known for his fundamental contributions to quantum field theory and for his work on quantum phenomena in relation to the mind.
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Tomitaro Makino Tomitaro Makino (牧野 富太郎 , Makino Tomitarō , April 24, 1862 – January 18, 1957) was a pioneer Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work. He has been called "Father of Japanese Botany". He was one of the first Japanese botanists to work extensively on classifying Japanese plants using the system developed by Linnaeus. His research resulted in documenting 50,000 specimens, many of which are represented in his "Makino's Illustrated Flora of Japan". Despite having dropped out of grammar school, he would eventually attain a Doctor of Science degree, and his birthday is remembered as "Botany Day" in Japan.
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Fernando Sanford Fernando Sanford (February 12, 1854 – May 21, 1948) was an American physicist and university professor. He was one of the 22 "pioneer professors" (founding faculty) for Stanford University.
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Takeo Matsubara Takeo Matsubara (松原武生 , Takeo Matsubara , April 3, 1921 - December 15, 2014) was a Japanese physicist. Matsubara proposed a method of statistical mechanics related to Green's function (many-body theory), by applying quantum field theory techniques to statistical physics.
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Koide Chōjūrō Koide Chōjūrō (小出 長十郎 , October 16, 1797 – October 6, 1865) , also known as Koide Shuke, was a Japanese mathematician in the Edo period.
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Tekijuku Tekijuku (適塾) was a school established consciously in Senba ( ) , Osaka, the main trading route between Nagasaki and Edo in 1838 during the Tenpō era of the late Edo period. Its founder was Ogata Kōan, a doctor and scholar of Dutch studies (Rangaku). The foreign language curriculum focused primarily on medicine, but also taught astronomy and other western sciences.
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Asaji Honda Asaji Honda was a Japanese male tennis player who represented Japan in the Olympic Games. He competed in the singles event at the 1924 Summer Olympics, losing in the first round to Jean Borotra. With compatriot Masanosuke Fukuda he competed in the men's doubles event and reached the second round.
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Kōjirō Matsumoto Kōjirō Matsumoto (松本 孝次郎 , Matsumoto Kōjirō ) is a Japanese educationist. He was a professor of Waseda University, and the provost of Tokyo Higher Normal School (today's University of Tsukuba). With educationists including Takashima (高島平三郎), he jointly founded the "Children Research" magazine in 1898, and in 1902 founded Children Research Society in Japan. In 1906 he was invited by Liangjiang Higher Normal School (today's Nanjing University) president Li Ruiqing and then came to China to be the school provost.
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Kaneko Daiei Kaneko Daiei (金子 大栄 , 1881-1976) was a Japanese Buddhist philosopher of the early 20th century. He was born to the priest of Saiken-ji, a Shin Buddhist temple in Jōetsu, Niigata Prefecture. He was a student Kiyozawa Manshi (1863 – 1903) and taught for several years at Ōtani University. In 1928 he was excommunicated from Jodo Shinshu for having charged the organization with materialism. A decade later his excommunication was overturned and he was welcomed back.
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Akira Tonomura Akira Tonomura (外村 彰 , Tonomura Akira , April 25, 1942 – May 2, 2012) was a Japanese physicist, best known for his development of electron holography and his experimental verification of the Aharonov–Bohm effect.
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Kunisawa Shinkurō Kunisawa Shinkurō (国沢新九郎 ) (1848–1877) was a pioneer of Western-style painting in early Meiji Japan. Born to a retainer of the Tosa Domain, he studied in England under John Edgar Williams, before opening the Shōgidō (彰技堂 ) art school in 1874, upon his return to Japan. His students include Honda Kinkichirō ( ) , Morizumi Isana ( ) , and Asai Chū.
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Henry Smith Munroe Henry Smith Munroe (March 25, 1850 – May 4, 1933) (born Henry Maynard Smith) was an American geologist who worked in Meiji period Japan as a foreign advisor to the Japanese government.