Kuno Yasu

Kuno Yasu ( Japanese 久 野 寧 ; born March 30, 1882 in Nagoya ( Aichi Prefecture ); died December 30, 1977 ) was a Japanese physiologist and the first in the world to deal in detail with the phenomenon of sweating.

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Kuno Yasu graduated from the "Aichi Medical School" in 1903 (愛 知 県 立 医学 専 門 学校, Aichi kenristsu Igau semmon gakkō). After continuing his studies at Tōkyō University and Kyoto University , he worked at the "Nanman igaku-dō" (南 満 医学 堂) and then at the "Manshū ika daigaku" (満 州 医科大学). From 1937 to 1955 he taught at Nagoya University .

Kuno became known with his publication "The Physiology of Human Perspiration", which was published in 1934 in London. In 1941 he was awarded the Imperial Promotion Prize (恩賜 賞, Onshi-shō) by the Academy of Sciences . In 1946 he published "Sweat" (汗 、 Ase), in 1948 he became a member of the Science Council of Japan , and in 1949 a member of the Academy. Kuno was also active in vitamin research.

In 1963 Kuno was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in the same year .

Remarks

1. ↑ The Japanese version did not appear until 1946.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Kuno Yasu . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 843.

Web links

• Kuno Yasu, CV in the Kotobank, Japanese

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