Shigeru Nakayama Explained

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. Nakayama was on the staff of Tokyo University from 1960 to 1989.^[3] As Professor Emeritus, he was at Kanagawa University.^[5]

Nakayama died in Tokyo on Saturday 10 May 2014.^[6]

Works

• Japanese Studies in the History of Astronomy (1962)^[7]
• A History of Japanese Astronomy: Chinese Background and Western Impact (1969)^[8]
• Characteristics of scientific development in Japan (1977)^[9]
• Academic and scientific traditions in China, Japan, and the West (1984)^[10]
• Science, Technology, and Society in Postwar Japan (1991)^[11]
• 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)^[12]
• The Orientation of Science and Technology: A Japanese View (2009)^[13]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Abstract: Low, Morris (2014). In memoriam: Shigeru Nakayama (1928-2014). Historia Scientiarum 24 (1) 25-28.UQ eSpace . espace.library.uq.edu.au.
2. Book: Nakayama . Shigeru . The Orientation of Science and Technology: A Japanese View . 2009 . Global Oriental . 978-90-04-21307-4 . viii . en.
3. Web site: Shigeru Nakayama / Alumni / Fellows and Alumni / IAS-STS - IAS-STS . www.ifz.at .
4. Web site: Shigeru Nakayama . www.international.ucla.edu.
5. Book: Heilbron . John L. . The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science . 2003 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-974376-6 . xviii . en.
6. Web site: Passing of Prof. Shigeru Nakayama, Terasaki Chair in US-Japan Relations, 2008-09 . international.ucla.edu.
7. Book: Nakayama . Shigeru . Japanese Studies in the History of Astronomy . 1962 . en.
8. Book: Nakayama . Shigeru . A History of Japanese Astronomy: Chinese Background and Western Impact . 1969 . Harvard University Press . 978-0-19-626533-9 . en.
9. Book: NAKAYAMA . S . Characteristics of scientific development in Japan . The Centre for the study of science, technology and development (CSIR) . 1977.
10. Book: Nakayama . Shigeru . Academic and scientific traditions in China, Japan, and the West . 1984 . University of Tokyo Press . 978-4-13-068107-0 . en.
11. Book: Nakayama . Shigeru . Science, Technology, and Society in Postwar Japan . 1991 . Kegan Paul International . 978-0-7103-0428-5 . en.
12. Book: Nakayama . Shigeru . A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: Transformation period, 1970-1979 . 2006 . Trans Pacific Press . 978-1-876843-46-5 . en.
13. Book: Nakayama . Shigeru . The Orientation of Science and Technology: A Japanese View . 2009 . Global Oriental . 978-90-04-21307-4 . en.