Hagiwara Yūsuke

Hagiwara Yūsuke

Hagiwara Yūsuke ( Japanese 萩 原 雄 祐 ; born March 28, 1897 in Osaka ; died January 29, 1979 ) was a Japanese astronomer.

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Hagiwara Yūsuke graduated from Tōkyō University in 1921 . He worked there from 1935 to 1957 as a professor. In 1944 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences .

In 1946 he took over the reconstruction and management of the "Tōkyō Astronomical Obervatory" (東京 天文台, Tōkyō temmon-dai), which was destroyed in the Pacific War. After the end of his teaching activities at the University of Tōkyō, he took over a professorship at the Tōhoku University and was then President of the University of Utsunomiya .

Hagiware is known for his work on celestial mechanics, especially the behavior of planets and asteroids. In 1954 Hagiwara was honored as a person with special cultural merits and awarded the Order of Culture .

In 1976 Hagiwara's work "Fundamentals of Heavenly Mechanics" (天体 力学 の 基礎, Tentai rikigaku no kiso) was published.

Remarks

1. ↑ Today the "National Astronomical Observatory" (国立 天文台, Kokuritsu temmon-dai).

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Hagiwara Yūsuke . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 458.

Web links

• Hagiwara Yūsuke in the Kotobank, Japanese

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Hagiwara is the family name, Yūsuke the first name.