Shigeru Nakayama

Shigeru Nakayama (中山茂) (1928–2014) was a Japanese historian of science.

Life

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Nakayama was born in 1928, in Amagasaki, and brought up there.[1] He survived the Hiroshima atom bomb of 1945.[2] He left Hiroshima Higher School in 1948, and graduated from Tokyo University with a degree in mathematical astronomy in 1951.[3][4]

As a graduate student, Nakayama was a Fulbright scholar.[2] He worked with Thomas Kuhn and then Joseph Needham.[3] Besides those two scholars, he regarded Kiyosi Yabuuti (1906–2000) as one of his teachers.[1] At Harvard in the late 1950s, he met fellow graduate student Nathan Sivin, with whom he worked for many decades. [5] Nakayama was on the staff of Tokyo University from 1960 to 1989.[3] As Professor Emeritus, he was at Kanagawa University.[6]

Nakayama died in Tokyo on Saturday 10 May 2014.[7]

Works

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  • Japanese Studies in the History of Astronomy (1962)[8]
  • A History of Japanese Astronomy: Chinese Background and Western Impact (1969)[9]
  • Characteristics of scientific development in Japan (1977)[10]
  • Academic and scientific traditions in China, Japan, and the West (1984)[11]
  • Science, Technology, and Society in Postwar Japan (1991)[12]
  • A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: The Occupation Period, 1945-1952 (2001), with Kunio Goto and Hitoshi Yoshioka
  • A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: Road to Self-Reliance, 1952-1959 (2005), with Kunio Goto and Hitoshi Yoshioka
  • A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: Transformation period, 1970-1979 (2006)[13]
  • The Orientation of Science and Technology: A Japanese View (2009)[14]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b "Abstract: Low, Morris (2014). In memoriam: Shigeru Nakayama (1928-2014). Historia Scientiarum 24 (1) 25-28.UQ eSpace". espace.library.uq.edu.au.
  2. ^ a b Nakayama, Shigeru (2009). The Orientation of Science and Technology: A Japanese View. Global Oriental. p. viii. ISBN 978-90-04-21307-4.
  3. ^ a b c "Shigeru Nakayama / Alumni / Fellows and Alumni / IAS-STS - IAS-STS". www.ifz.at.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Shigeru Nakayama". www.international.ucla.edu.
  5. ^ Nakayama, Shigeru (1995), "Working with Nathan Sivin: Four Decades", East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, 12 (1): 6–9, doi:10.1163/26669323-01201004, S2CID 164449074
  6. ^ Heilbron, John L. (2003). The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. Oxford University Press. p. xviii. ISBN 978-0-19-974376-6.
  7. ^ "Passing of Prof. Shigeru Nakayama, Terasaki Chair in US-Japan Relations, 2008-09". international.ucla.edu.
  8. ^ Nakayama, Shigeru (1962). Japanese Studies in the History of Astronomy.
  9. ^ Nakayama, Shigeru (1969). A History of Japanese Astronomy: Chinese Background and Western Impact. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-626533-9.
  10. ^ NAKAYAMA, S (1977). Characteristics of scientific development in Japan. The Centre for the study of science, technology and development (CSIR).
  11. ^ Nakayama, Shigeru (1984). Academic and scientific traditions in China, Japan, and the West. University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 978-4-13-068107-0.
  12. ^ Nakayama, Shigeru (1991). Science, Technology, and Society in Postwar Japan. Kegan Paul International. ISBN 978-0-7103-0428-5.
  13. ^ Nakayama, Shigeru (2006). A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: Transformation period, 1970-1979. Trans Pacific Press. ISBN 978-1-876843-46-5.
  14. ^ Nakayama, Shigeru (2009). The Orientation of Science and Technology: A Japanese View. Global Oriental. ISBN 978-90-04-21307-4.
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