Biography:Shigeru Nakayama

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

Life

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

  • 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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Abstract: Low, Morris (2014). In memoriam: Shigeru Nakayama (1928-2014). Historia Scientiarum 24 (1) 25-28.UQ eSpace". https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:341523. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nakayama, Shigeru (2009) (in en). The Orientation of Science and Technology: A Japanese View. Global Oriental. p. viii. ISBN 978-90-04-21307-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_V5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR8. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Shigeru Nakayama / Alumni / Fellows and Alumni / IAS-STS - IAS-STS". https://www.ifz.at/ias/IAS-STS/Fellows-and-Alumni/Alumni/Shigeru-Nakayama. [yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  4. ↑ "Shigeru Nakayama". https://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/people/usjapan/1660. 
  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, https://doi.org/10.1163/26669323-01201004 
  6. ↑ Heilbron, John L. (2003) (in en). The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. Oxford University Press. p. xviii. ISBN 978-0-19-974376-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=abqjP-_KfzkC&pg=PR18. 
  7. ↑ "Passing of Prof. Shigeru Nakayama, Terasaki Chair in US-Japan Relations, 2008-09". https://international.ucla.edu/Institute/article/139623. 
  8. ↑ Nakayama, Shigeru (1962) (in en). Japanese Studies in the History of Astronomy. https://books.google.com/books?id=wHOJtQEACAAJ. 
  9. ↑ Nakayama, Shigeru (1969) (in en). A History of Japanese Astronomy: Chinese Background and Western Impact. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-626533-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=rFiiswEACAAJ. 
  10. ↑ NAKAYAMA, S (1977). Characteristics of scientific development in Japan. The Centre for the study of science, technology and development (CSIR). https://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetail&idt=12717038. 
  11. ↑ Nakayama, Shigeru (1984) (in en). Academic and scientific traditions in China, Japan, and the West. University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 978-4-13-068107-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=XXzPAAAAMAAJ. 
  12. ↑ Nakayama, Shigeru (1991) (in en). Science, Technology, and Society in Postwar Japan. Kegan Paul International. ISBN 978-0-7103-0428-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=FvsYAAAAIAAJ. 
  13. ↑ Nakayama, Shigeru (2006) (in en). A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: Transformation period, 1970-1979. Trans Pacific Press. ISBN 978-1-876843-46-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=QpggAQAAMAAJ. 
  14. ↑ Nakayama, Shigeru (2009) (in en). The Orientation of Science and Technology: A Japanese View. Global Oriental. ISBN 978-90-04-21307-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_V5DwAAQBAJ. 



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