Ibuka graduated from Waseda University in 1933, he then went to work at Photo-Chemical Laboratory, a company which processed movie film, and later served in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, being a member of the Imperial Navy Wartime Research Committee. Continue reading
First introduced in 1957, was a Pocket Transistor Radio manufactured by Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, now Sony KK). Continue reading
Akio Morita was born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Morita's family was involved in sake, miso and soy sauce production in the village of Kosugaya (currently a part of Tokoname City) on the western coast of Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture since 1665. Continue reading
Sony KK, was the first Japanese company to sell stock on United States stock exchanges. Continue reading
The Walkman, designed by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, founders of the consumer electronics manufacturer Sony KK of Tokyo, Japan. Continue reading
He was born as Hideki Ogawa in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto with two older brothers, two older sisters, and two younger brothers. Continue reading
Japanese physicist Yukawa Hideki was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949. For his prediction of the existence of mesons that was made in 1935, during his lecturer at Osaka Imperial University in Osaka, Japan. He postulated a particle that mediated the strong interaction between nucleons (the particles of the atomic nucleus).
This particle, the “pi meson” or “pion”, was finally discovered in 1947.
Several other types of mesons of varying mass have been found; the first being observed in cosmic ray interactions in 1937 by American scientists.
Date:
1935
Name(s):
Yukawa Hideki
Occupation:
Physicist
First Asian presented the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was in 1987
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First Asian presented the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was in 1981
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