Hirosh Tamiya

January 5, 1903 (age 81)

Osaka, Japan

Tamiya worked and studied in Japan, Europe, and the United States collaborating internationally with a variety of scientists of the early and mid-twentieth century. After World War II, during the Allied Occupation of Japan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Harry C. Kelly selected Tamiya to assist him in evaluating legitimate scientific research in Japan.The mission was largely in response to the destruction of cyclotrons by the United States Army acting out of fear the Japanese had been researching and developing a nuclear weapon during the war. One of the cyclotrons destroyed was an instrument that Tamiya required for his research. In 1950 a thesis of his was read at the International Botanical Society meeting. In 1953 Tamiya, working with other Japanese scientists, developed important techniques for the synchronous culture of the green algae Chlorella, a model organism used by German Nobel Laureate Otto Heinrich Warburg whom Tamiya greatly admired. In this technique Tamiya was able to culture algal cell lines that were all in the same developmental stage, an important technique used by later scientists to decipher the life cycles of other single celled eukaryotic organisms. Tamiya Hiroshi was professor of Tokyo University and chief of the Tokugawa Biological Research Institute. Was editor of the technical magazine Kiso Kagalcu (Basic Science).

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Hirosh Tamiya was born on January 5, 1903 in Osaka, Japan.

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Tamiya was a student of acclaimed Japanese plant physiologist Keita Shibata as a student at Tokyo University.

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Tamiya worked and studied in Japan, Europe, and the United States collaborating internationally with a variety of scientists of the early and mid-twentieth century.

After World War II, during the Allied Occupation of Japan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Harry C. Kelly selected Tamiya to assist him in evaluating legitimate scientific research in Japan.The mission was largely in response to the destruction of cyclotrons by the United States Army acting out of fear the Japanese had been researching and developing a nuclear weapon during the war. One of the cyclotrons destroyed was an instrument that Tamiya required for his research.

In 1950 a thesis of his was read at the International Botanical Society meeting. In 1953 Tamiya, working with other Japanese scientists, developed important techniques for the synchronous culture of the green algae Chlorella, a model organism used by German Nobel Laureate Otto Heinrich Warburg whom Tamiya greatly admired. In this technique Tamiya was able to culture algal cell lines that were all in the same developmental stage, an important technique used by later scientists to decipher the life cycles of other single celled eukaryotic organisms.

Tamiya Hiroshi was professor of Tokyo University and chief of the Tokugawa Biological Research Institute. Was editor of the technical magazine Kiso Kagalcu (Basic Science).

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Studies on Microalgae & Photosynthetic Studies on Microalgae & Photosynthetic

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- Nihon no saiban
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- GROWING CHLORELLA FOR FOOD AND FEED 1956
- Studies on Microalgae & Photosynthetic 1963
- Nippon Seen from the Air 1979

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In 1966 Tamiya was made a foreign associate member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

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Nihon no saiban

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Japanese Order of Culture (1977), Japan