Yabe Hisakatsu

Yabe Hisakatsu ( Japanese 矢 部 長 克 ; born December 3, 1878 in Tokyo Prefecture , † June 23, 1969 in Tokyo Prefecture) was a Japanese paleontologist and geologist.

Life

Yabe came through reading the paleontology textbook by Karl Alfred von Zittel to study geology, mineralogy and paleontology from 1898 at the Imperial University of Tokyo , graduating in 1901. He then did research at the Imperial University, became an instructor in 1906 and was from 1908 in Europe with Wilhelm von Branca and Karl Diener . Then he was Professor of Geology at Tōhoku University , where he built the Institute of Geology and Paleontology. He has produced over 500 publications on a wide range of topics in geology, geophysics (earthquakes, seismology), geomorphology and paleontology (also on paleobotany).

In 1920 he became a member of the National Research Council in Japan. In 1914 he became a corresponding member of the Imperial and Royal Geographical Society in Vienna and he was a foreign member of the Paleontological Society , the Chinese Geological Society and the Russian Paleontological Society, honorary member of the California Academy of Sciences and the Paleontological Society of Japan.

In 1952 he was awarded the Order of Culture as a person with special cultural merits and in 1953 .

literature

• Korota Hatai, Memorial to Hisakatsu Yabe 1878-1969, The Geological Society of America, pdf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 矢 部長 克 . In: ブ リ タ ニ カ 国際 大 百科 事 典 小 項目 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved June 20, 2015 (Japanese). 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Yabe is the family name, Hisakatsu the first name.