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12 unusual facts about Tohoku University


Chen Jiangong

1923, he graduated from Tohoku University, he then went back to China, became a lecture in Zhejaing Industrial School (later immerged into National Chekiang University).

Hidetsugu Yagi

When working at Tohoku University, he wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna design by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world.

Hitoshi Goto

A native of Kofu, Yamanashi and graduate of Tohoku University, he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 1980 to 1995.

Izumi Muto

Izumi graduated from the Department of Engineering at Tohoku University in 1986, completing a master's course in Tohoku's graduate school engineering research (metal engineering major) in 1988.

Jun-ichi Nishizawa

He earned a B.S. in 1948, and a Doctor of Engineering degree in 1960, from Tohoku University.

Keiichi Aichi

He served as a professor of the physics department at the College of Science, Tohoku Imperial University.

Kenya Akiba

A native of Miyagi Prefecture, he attended Chuo University as an undergraduate and received his master's degree from Tohoku University.

Kuniko Ozaki

Besides, she has worked as a professor of international law at Tohoku University and at other universities.

Masamichi Takesaki

Takesaki studied at Tohoku University, earning a bachelors degree in 1958 and a doctorate in 1965.

Su Buqing

He graduated from Tohoku Imperial University in Japan in 1927 and received his Ph.D. from the University in 1931.

Takao Watanabe

A native of Ishioka, Ibaraki and graduate of Tohoku University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1995.

Tohoku University

Ryuta Kawashima (川島 隆太), neuroscientist, currently resident professor, the supervisor of Nintendo DS gamesofts; "Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!" and "Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old is Your Brain?"


IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal

Nishizawa was professor, director of two research institutes and the 17th president at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, and contributed important innovations in the fields of optical communications and semiconductor devices, such as laser and PIN diodes and static induction thyristors for electric power applications.

Minna de Kitaeru Zenno Training

This game, like Brain Age, was supervised by Professor Ryuta Kawashima of Tohoku University.

Tetracene

In May 2007, researchers from two Japanese universities, Tohoku University in Sendai and Osaka University, reported an ambipolar light-emitting transistor made of a single tetracene crystal.