Keiichi Aichi
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Born | Tokyo, Japan | 25 July 1880
Died | 23 June 1923 | (aged 42)
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Fields | Physics |
Keiichi Aichi (
Aichi was born in Tokyo in 1880 and studied theoretical physics at University of Tokyo. He graduated in 1903 and in 1905 moved to Kyoto where he became an assistant professor at Kyoto University. Between 1908 and 1911 he studied in Germany and in 1912 defended his PhD at Tohoku Imperial University with recommendations from the chancellor. Soon after, he assumed the post of professor at the university's then newly established College of Science. In 1922, he served as an interpreter during the visit of Albert Einstein in Japan. Aichi died from food poisoning in 1923.[1]
His son was the politician Kiichi Aichi, who served consecutively as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Finance.
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Books
[edit]- Jitsuyō kōtō sūgaku 『
実用 高等 数学 』 (co-authored with Takejirō Sumio (角 尾 猛 次郎 , Sumio Takejirō)) Dainippon Tosho, 1909 - Shizen no bi to megumi: Kagaku sōwa 『
自然 の美 と恵 —科学 叢 話 』 (Beauty and grace of nature: Science stories) Maruzen, 1917 - Rikigaku 『
力学 』 (Mechanics) Shōkabō, 1919 - Hōshanō gairon 『
放射能 概論 』 (Introduction to Radiation) Maruzen, 1920 - Denkigaku no taito Faradē no den 『
電気 学 の泰斗 ファラデーの伝 』 (Story of Faraday – the father of electricity) Iwanami Shoten, 1922 - Denshi no jijoden: Tsūzoku denki kōwa 『
電子 の自叙伝 —通俗 電気 講話 』 Shōkabō, 1922 - Rironbutsurigaku 『
理論 物理 学 』 (Theoretical Physics) Shōkabō, 1924
Translations
[edit]- Carl Friedrich Gauss' Theory of Potential 「ポテンチヤル
論 」 (co-translated with Junzō Ōkubo (大久保 準 三 , Ōkubo Junzō), Tohoku Imperial University Edition Kagaku meichoshū 『科学 名著 集 』 4, Maruzen, 1913
References
[edit]- ^ a b Rengō Puresu Sha (1964). The Japan biographical encyclopedia & who's who. Japan Biographical Research Dept., Rengo Press, Ltd. p. 12. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
External links
[edit]- Tohoku University Image Database – Profile photograph (Japanese)
- Contemporary Digital Library at the National Diet Library – Digitized images of Jitsuyō kōtō sūgaku, Rikigaku, Hōshanō gairon and Rironbutsurigaku can be viewed here. (Japanese)
- Faradē no den – Online version of Denkigaku no taito Faradē no den at Aozora Bunko (Japanese)