Sakurada Ichirō

Sakurada Ichirō ( Japanese 桜 田一郎 ; born January 1, 1904 in Kyoto ; died June 23, 1986 there) was a Japanese chemist in the field of high polymers .

Live and act

Sakurada Ichirō graduated from Kyōto University in 1926 . From 1928 to 1931 he continued his education in Germany. In 1935 he became a professor at his alma mater , where he worked until 1967. The university distinguished him as "Meiyo Kyōju" when he left. He then worked at Dōshisha University until 1977 .

Sakurada dealt with the viscosity of high polymers and researched their structure with the help of X-ray diffraction . Together with two colleagues, he succeeded in producing the first synthetic fibers in Japan in 1939.

In 1955 Sakurada became a member of the Academy of Sciences . In 1968 he was (the annually elected) president of the "Society of Japanese Chemists" (日本 化学 学会, Nihon kagaku gakkai). In 1977 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in the same year .

Remarks

1. ↑ 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.): Sakurada Ichirō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1304.

Web links

• Biographies Sakurada Ichirō in the Kotobank, Japanese

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