Ukichiro Nakaya Facts
Ukichiro Nakaya Facts
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| Nakaya was born near the Katayamazu hot springs in Kaga. |
| Nakaya's father wanted him to be a potter and he was apprenticed to a potter while in elementary school. |
| In 1924 he wrote a paper for the Physics Department of the Tokyo Imperial University on Kutani porcelain. |
| He majored in experimental physics at Tokyo University and graduated in 1925. |
| After graduation he became a research assistant at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research. |
| He studied electrostatic discharge and became an assistant professor at Tokyo Imperial University. |
| In 1928 and 1929 he attended graduate courses at King's College in London. |
| He worked with Owen Willans Richardson on long wavelength X-rays. |
| In 1930 he earned his PhD from Kyoto Imperial University and became an assistant professor at Hokkaido University. |
| Beginning in 1933 he made more than 3000 photographs of snow crystals. |
| He established a classification of snow crystals that included seven major categories. |
| In 1935 he founded the Low Temperature Science Laboratory. |
| He spent two years on the Izu Peninsula recovering from an infection of clonorchiasis. |
| In 1941 he received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy for his research into snow crystals. |
| In 1943 a new atmospheric icing observatory was built at Mt. Niseko-Annupuri. |
| Nakaya worked there during the war to find a way to prevent atmospheric icing of planes. |
| He founded the Laboratory of Agricultural Physics at Hokkaido University in 1946. |
| In 1949 he was invited by the International Glaciological Society to tour the United States and Canada. |
| From 1952 to 1954 he was a researcher at the Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment. |
| In 1954 he published Snow Crystals:Natural and Artificial. |
| He was a member of the United States expedition to Greenland for the International Geophysical Year in 1957. |
| In 1960 the UK Antarctic Place Names Committee named a group of islands in his honor. |
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