Kaya Seiji

Kaya Seiji ( Japanese 茅 誠 司 ; born December 21, 1898 in Aikawa (愛 川 町) in Aikō County (愛 甲 郡), Kanagawa Prefecture ; died November 9, 1988 ) was a Japanese physicist and science organizer.

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Kaza Seiji graduated from Tōhoku University in 1923 . He then worked at the Institute for Metallic Materials (金属 材料 研究所, Kinzoku zairyō kenkyūjo) - one of his teachers was Honda Kōtarō - and stayed in Germany for further training. After teaching for 13 years at Hokkaidō University , he became a professor at Tōkyō University in 1943 . His research area was the study of ferromagnetic crystals. In 1942 he received the award of the Academy of Sciences for his work "Magnetic investigations on ferromagnetic crystals" (強 磁性 結晶 体 の 磁 気 的 研究, Kyōjisei kesshō no jikiteki kenkyū) .

After the Pacific War he headed from 1947 to 1949 in the Ministry of Culture the Office for Education in Science (文部省 科学 教育局; Mombushō kagaku kyōiku kyoku) and played a key role in the establishment of the " Science Council of Japan " (Nihon gakujutsu kaigi), one Institution designed to restructure Japan's education and research system. From 1957 to 1963 Kaya was the 17th President of Tōkyō University. In 1985 he headed the “Society for Green Culture” (緑 の 文明 学会; Midori no bummei gakkai).

In 1964 Kaya was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in the same year . The Kayabreen , a glacier in Antarctica, bears his name in his honor .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Kaya Seiji . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 766.

Web links

• CV Kaya Seiji in the Kotobank, Japanese

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