Japan Academy

  • 3.1 President of the Tōkyō Gakushi Kaiin
  • 3.2 President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences
  • 3.3 President of the Japan Academy of Sciences
  • 4.1 Known winners

History

The Japanese Academy of Sciences, in the Meiji era founded in 1879. From the time of the founding until 1906 it was called Tōkyō Gakushi Kaiin (东京 学士 会 院). The aim of the newly founded Academy was to promote education and science. At the beginning the number of members was set to 40.

1906, the Academy was renamed the Imperial Academy of Sciences (帝国 学士 ​​院, Teikoku Gakushiin, engl. The Imperial Academy). As a result, the range of tasks of the Academy has been further extended and approached for tasks relating to European and American academies. The Academy created reports on the state of research and answered questions of the government. They also began to honor outstanding scientific achievements. They established a regular meeting to recap the state of research and discuss.

After the end of World War II, in 1947 under American occupation, the Academy was again renamed and given its present name. In addition, the academy was placed under the Japanese Science Council, which until 1956 its independence was limited as not originally state organization. In 1956 she was awarded by the adoption of the Law Academy, which comprises 10 articles, their independence as a non-governmental organization back. The number of members was increased to a maximum of 150 people by Article 2 of this law. Membership is granted under Article 3 for life. The Library of the Academy has since created various collections of material, especially for Japanese mathematics. She held a lively exchange of information with other academies around the world.

Presence

In 1974 received the Academy a new seat and a new meeting hall, which was built to a design by Dr. Yoshiro Taniguchi. The total area that is currently the Academy in Ueno available is 1282 ㎡. It has an annual budget of 602.5 million yen ( 2010). The Academy has two main divisions, a liberal arts and science, with a total of seven sub-divisions, the individual subject areas are assigned:

  • Humanities Department:
  • Natural Sciences Department:

Chairman of the Academy is currently Masaaki Kubo, Takashi Sugimura deputy. The Academy belong to the time 134 of a possible 150 members, 27 honorary members and additional 11 employees. The Academy organizes monthly meetings, with the exception of July and August, and it has 11 technical committees on specific topics.

Known members

Known members of the Academy are, inter alia:

  • Kikuchi Seishi
  • Tadashi Nakayama

Collections

The Academy's library collects materials and support for their members. It currently has over 34 342 independent individual documents and 2472 series title. Among the most important collections include:

  • The collection of documents that genuinely Japanese achievements in mathematics, whose existence is documented in the Catalog of Native Japanese Mathematics.
  • The collection Komín Kawamoto - a collection of documents of the same scholar who under the Rangaku translated many books on the scientific achievements of Europe in the Edo period and has written books on chemistry and physics.
  • The collection Diaries - 139 handwritten records and 46 documents for correspondence between Japan and other countries that were over a period of 230 years ( 1631-1860 ) created and updated.

President of the Academy

President of the Tōkyō Gakushi Kaiin

President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences

President of the Japan Academy of Sciences

Academy Awards

The Academy gives beyond four different prices:

  • Since 1911 the Onshi - shō (恩赐 赏, "Imperial Prize" )
  • Also since 1911 the price of the Japan Academy of Sciences (日本 学士 院 赏, Gakushiin - shō )
  • Since 1987, the Duke of Edinburgh Award (エジンバラ 公 賞, Ejinbara Kosho ) and
  • Since 2004 the Prize for Science of Japan Academy of Sciences (日本 学士 院 学术 奨 励 赏)

Known laureates

  • Jimbo Michio
  • Kazuhiko Nishijima
  • Hideki Yukawa
  • Ryoji Noyori
  • Akihisa Inoue
  • Ōno Hideo
  • Hiroyuki Sakaki
  • Masakatsu Shibasaki
  • Tadashi Nakayama
German Council of Science and Humanities Seishi Kikuchi Tadashi Nakayama (mathematician)
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