Setō Shōji

Setō Shōji ( Japanese 瀬 藤 象 二 ; born March 18, 1891 in Toyajiō (鳥 屋 城 村) in Arida County (有 田 郡), Wakayama Prefecture ; died October 20, 1977 ) was a Japanese electrical engineer.

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Setō Shōji received higher education at the Taikyugakūsha (耐久 学 舎) school founded by the entrepreneur Hamaguchi Goryo (浜 口 梧 陵; 1820–1885). He then attended Daiichi High School and studied from 1912 at the Faculty of Engineering at Tōkyō University . In 1915 he graduated as one of the best and stayed on the recommendation of Professor Hō Hidetarō (鳳 秀 太郎; 1872-1931) at the university. In 1918 he became an assistant professor. In March 1923 he went to Germany for two years and continued his education at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . After his return he became a professor at his alma mater.

From 1926 Setō worked as a senior researcher at RIKEN and worked on a process to anodize aluminum in order to obtain a protected surface. This led to "Alumite", which could then be introduced in 1928. In 1939 he succeeded as a member of a commission of the semi-state “Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science” (日本 学術 振興 会; Nihon gakujutsu shinkōkai) to promote the electron microscope the “Nihon denshi kembikyō gakkai” (日本 電子 顕 微鏡 学会) - now shorter “Nihon” kembikyō gakkai ”- which he initially headed. Today this society awards the "Seto Prize" to outstanding researchers in this field.

He was also a director at Tōshiba , was chairman of the "Japan Atomic Power Company" (日本 原子 力 事業, Nihon denshiryoku jigō KK) and from 1959 to 1973 president of the private "University of Electrical Engineering, Tōkyō" (東京 電機 大学, Tōkyō denki daigaku), the beginnings of which go back to 1907.

In 1955 he received a medal of honor , in 1973 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in the same year . He gave the cultural medal to the school in his hometown, now Taikyū High School (耐久 高等学校), in gratitude for the good start in life that was provided at the time.

Remarks

1. ↑ Today Aridagawa (有 田 川 町).

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Setō Shōji . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1350.

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