Tohoku University

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The Tohoku University (Japanese东北 大学, Tōhoku Daigaku, abbreviated as东北 大, Tōhokudai ), located in Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture and is one of the most prestigious national universities in Japan. She has a total of 10 faculties and over 16,000 students (as of 2008 ).

The University was established in 1907 under the name Imperial Tohoku University (东北 帝国 大学, Tōhoku Daigaku Teikoku ) was founded as one of the nine imperial universities. To the time of its establishment there were areas of study agriculture, science and medicine. In 1918 the area of ​​agriculture to Hokkaido University was independent and in the years 1919 and 1922 the areas of literature, law and engineering were added. In the following years the areas of pedagogy (1949 ), dentistry (1965) and Pharmaceutics ( 1972) were added.

In the technical laboratories of Tohoku University have (starting 1924) Professor Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda his assistant developed the first direction-sensitive antenna ( Yagi -Uda antenna). This innovation had far-reaching effects on the amateur radio, radar technology, as well as on the radio and television broadcasting.

In the years from 1936 to 1941 taught at the Imperial University of refugee from Germany, Jewish philosopher Karl Lowith until he sold from here, in 1941 went to the United States.

Among the graduates of the University Koichi Tanaka is one, who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2002.

The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011 and the subsequent tsunami, of which Sendai was severely affected, have influenced the teaching activities of the University, so that the beginning of the summer term had to be postponed to May 6, 2011.

Graduate school of science

Katahira - north entrance