Akira Ogata

Akira Ogata (Japanese绪 方 章, born October 26, 1887 in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, † August 22, 1978 ) was a Japanese pharmacologist, Doctor of Pharmacy and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. He founded Japan's endocrine research and had great influence on the development of the Japanese pharmaceutical industry.

In 1912 he obtained a degree in medical and pharmaceutical faculty of the University of Tokyo, where he had studied under Nagai Nagayoshi. In 1919 he received a degree from the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he had performed pharmacological experiments.

In 1919 he synthesized ( colloquially known as meth or crystal ) as the first methamphetamine in crystalline form., In which he performed a reduction of L -ephedrine using hydroiodic acid and red phosphorus

In 1920 he was appointed assistant professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Tokyo and taught there until 1948.

• Chemists ( 20th century)
• University teachers (University of Tokyo)
• Japanese
• Born in 1887
• Died in 1978
• Man