Masumoto Hakaru

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Masumoto Hakaru

Masumoto Hakaru ( Japanese 増 本 量 ; born January 9, 1895 in Yaga (矢 賀 村), Aki County (安 芸 郡), Hiroshima Prefecture ; died August 12, 1987 ) was a Japanese metallurgist.

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Awarded the Order of Culture in 1955

Masumoto Hakaru came from a farming family in Hiroshima Prefecture. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics in the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Tōhoku University in 1922 . Then he worked under the direction of Honda Kōtarō in the "Institute for Metal Research" (金属 材料 研究所, Kinzoku zairyō kenkyūjo) of the university. Masumoto became professor in 1933 and director of the research institute in 1950. He set up the Institute for Electromagnetic Materials (電 気 磁 気 材料 研究所, denki jiki zaryō kenkyūjo). In 1960 he was adopted as "Meiyo Kyōju".

Masumot dealt with the expansion coefficients of Co-Fe-Cr alloys. The results were Sendust , neue KS-Stahl and AlFer. Masumoto thus made a major contribution to the knowledge of iron alloys. His nickel-cobalt alloys, which led to extreme inva materials, are also known.

In 1951 Masumoto was awarded the Prize of the Academy of Sciences , in 1946 he received the Imperial Honorary Prize (恩賜賞, Onshi-shō). In 1955 Masumoto was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in the same year .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Today the district of Hiroshima.
  2. ↑ Front row from left: Hiranuma Ryōzō , Futaki Kenzō , Ōtani Takejirō , back row from left: Masumoto, Maeda Seison and Watsuji Tetsurō .
  3. ↑ Meiyo Kyōju (名誉 教授) is occasionally rendered in German as "Professor emeritus". But in contrast to this title, which is automatically used on retirement, this is a special award only occasionally granted in Japan.

literature

  • S. Noma (Ed.): Masumoto Hakaru . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 932.

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Masumoto is the family name, Hakaru the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Masumoto, Hakaru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 増 本 量 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese metallurgy
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hiroshima
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1987