Background
Yasuo Miyake was born in 1908 in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
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Yasuo Miyake was born in 1908 in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
He graduated from Tokyo University in organic chemistry in 1931 with a thesis on studies of a novel radioactive mineral, containing uranium, thorium and rare earths.
He began his professional career at the Hokkaido University as a research assistant from 1931 to 1935 and moved to the Central Meteorological Observatory as a chief chemist from 1935 to 1946.
He obtained Doctor of Science from the Tokyo Imperial University with a doctorate dissertation "Marine Chemistry of the western North Pacific" in 1940. He became Director of the Geochemical Laboratory at the Meteorological Research Institute (MRI).
In 1956, he was invited to be a visiting professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California and California Institute of Technology. In 1957, he was appointed to be Professor of inorganic chemistry at the Tokyo Kyoiku University with a joint appointment at the Geochemical Laboratory at MRI.
He brought up quite a few young scientists. He retired from the academic positions in 1972. Later director of Marine Research Institute at Jogashima, Kanagawa Prefecture.
(Collected Papers (1939-1977))
1978