Shigeru Nakayama

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Shigeru Nakayama (中山茂) (1928–2014) was a Japanese

historian of science
.

Life

Nakayama was born in 1928, 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. [5]
Nakayama was on the staff of Tokyo University from 1960 to 1989.[3] As Professor Emeritus, he was at Kanagawa University.[6]

Nakayama died in Tokyo on Saturday 10 May 2014.[7]

Works

  • Japanese Studies in the History of Astronomy (1962)[8]
  • A History of Japanese Astronomy: Chinese Background and Western Impact (1969)[9]
  • Characteristics of scientific development in Japan (1977)[10]
  • Academic and scientific traditions in China, Japan, and the West (1984)[11]
  • Science, Technology, and Society in Postwar Japan (1991)[12]
  • 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)[13]
  • The Orientation of Science and Technology: A Japanese View (2009)[14]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Abstract: Low, Morris (2014). In memoriam: Shigeru Nakayama (1928-2014). Historia Scientiarum 24 (1) 25-28.UQ eSpace". espace.library.uq.edu.au.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-90-04-21307-4
    .
  3. ^ a b c "Shigeru Nakayama / Alumni / Fellows and Alumni / IAS-STS - IAS-STS". www.ifz.at.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Shigeru Nakayama". www.international.ucla.edu.
  5. S2CID 164449074
  6. ISBN 978-0-19-974376-6
    .
  7. ^ "Passing of Prof. Shigeru Nakayama, Terasaki Chair in US-Japan Relations, 2008-09". international.ucla.edu.
  8. ^ Nakayama, Shigeru (1962). Japanese Studies in the History of Astronomy.
  9. ISBN 978-0-19-626533-9
    .
  10. ^ NAKAYAMA, S (1977). Characteristics of scientific development in Japan. The Centre for the study of science, technology and development (CSIR).
  11. ISBN 978-4-13-068107-0
    .
  12. ISBN 978-0-7103-0428-5
    .
  13. ISBN 978-1-876843-46-5
    .
  14. ISBN 978-90-04-21307-4
    .
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