Tamiya Hiroshi

Tamiya Hiroshi ( Japanese 田 宮 博 ; born January 5, 1903 in Osaka ; died March 20, 1984 in Tōkyō ) was a Japanese cell biologist.

life and work

Tamiya Hiroshi graduated from the Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, University of Tōkyō in 1926 . After stays in Germany and France, he became an associate professor at his university in 1939. With his teacher Shibata Keita (柴 田 桂 太; 1877-1949) he researched enzymes, especially respiratory enzymes, in living beings and contributed to the global debate on this topic. In 1943 he became a professor. 1946 took over the management of the "Tokugawa Institute of Biology". In 1955 he became a professor at the "Institute for Applied Microbiology of the University of Tōkyō", whose director he became in 1961.

In 1958, Tamiya Hiroshi was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Cell Biology Section . In 1963 he received the Fujiwara Prize for "Investigation of Photosynthetic Microbial Chlorella ". In 1965 he received the Japanese Academy of Sciences award for "The Physiological and Biochemical Research into Chlorella Using Synchronized Cultures". In 1966 he became a member of the Japanese Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.

In 1977 Tamiya was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in the same year .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Tamiya Hiroshi . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1521.

Web links

• Member Post by Hiroshi Tamiya in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Short biographies in the Kotobank

Remarks

1. ↑ The Tokugawa Institute of Biology (徳 川 生物学 研究所, Tokugawa seibutsgaku kenkyūjo) was founded in 1917 by Tokugawa Yoshichika (徳 川 義 親; 1886–1976), 19th head of the House of Owari-Tokugawa .
2. ↑ The Fujiwara Prize was donated by Fujiwara Ginjirō (藤原 銀 次郎; 1869–1960), a politically active entrepreneur, for special scientific achievements.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hiroshi Tamiya. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed June 22, 2020 . 

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