Background
Aikitsu Tanakadate was born in 1856 in the area of modern Iwate Prefecture.
Aikitsu Tanakadate was born in 1856 in the area of modern Iwate Prefecture.
In 1882 he completed the physics course of Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied under the American scholar Thomas Corwin Mendenhall and the British scholar James Alfred Ewing. In 1889 he went to the University of Glasgow, where he studied under Lord Kelvin, and the following year to the University of Berlin.
Upon his return to Japan in 1891 he became a professor of Tokyo Imperial University.
He received a Cultural Award in 1944.