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was a Japanese 
Tohoku University Image Database
– Profile photograph (Japanese)
Contemporary Digital Library at the National Diet Library
– Digitized images of ''Jitsuyō kōtō sūgaku,'' ''Rikigaku,'' ''Hōshanō gairon'' and ''Rironbutsurigaku'' can be viewed here. (Japanese)
– Online version of ''Denkigaku no taito Faradē no den'' at Aozora Bunko (Japanese) 20th-century Japanese physicists 1880 births 1923 deaths University of Tokyo alumni Academic staff of the University of Tokyo Academic staff of Kyoto University Academic staff of Tohoku University Deaths from food poisoning {{Japan-scientist-stub
physicist
A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.
Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...
. He served as a professor of the physics department at the College of Science, Tohoku Imperial University
, or is a Japanese national university located in Sendai, Miyagi in the Tōhoku Region, Japan. It is informally referred to as . Established in 1907, it was the third Imperial University in Japan and among the first three Designated National ...
.
Aichi was born in Tokyo in 1880 and studied theoretical physics
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at University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project b ...
. He graduated in 1903 and in 1905 moved to Kyoto where he became an assistant professor at Kyoto University. Between 1908 and 1911 he studied in Germany and in 1912 defended his PhD at Tohoku Imperial University with recommendations from the chancellor. Soon after, he assumed the post of professor at the university's then newly established College of Science. In 1922, he served as an interpreter during the visit of Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...
in Japan. Aichi died from food poisoning in 1923.
His son was the politician Kiichi Aichi
was a Japanese
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, who served consecutively as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Finance.
Books
* ''Jitsuyō kōtō sūgaku'' 『実用高等数学』 (co-authored with ) Dainippon Tosho, 1909 * ''Shizen no bi to megumi: Kagaku sōwa'' 『自然の美と恵—科学叢話』 (Beauty and grace of nature: Science stories) Maruzen, 1917 * ''Rikigaku'' 『力学』 (Mechanics) Shōkabō, 1919 * ''Hōshanō gairon'' 『放射能概論』 (Introduction to Radiation) Maruzen, 1920 * ''Denkigaku no taito Faradē no den'' 『電気学の泰斗ファラデーの伝』 (Story of Faraday – the father of electricity)Iwanami Shoten
is a Japanese publishing company based in Tokyo.Louis Frédéric, ''Japan Encyclopedia'', Harvard University Press, 2005, p. 409.
Iwanami Shoten was founded in 1913 by Iwanami Shigeo. Its first major publication was Natsume Sōseki's novel '' ...
, 1922
* ''Denshi no jijoden: Tsūzoku denki kōwa 『電子の自叙伝—通俗電気講話』 Shōkabō, 1922
* ''Rironbutsurigaku'' 『理論物理学』 (Theoretical Physics) Shōkabō, 1924
Translations
* Carl Friedrich Gauss' ''Theory of Potential'' 「ポテンチヤル論」 (co-translated with , Tohoku Imperial University Edition ''Kagaku meichoshū'' 『科学名著集』 4, Maruzen, 1913References
External links
Tohoku University Image Database
– Profile photograph (Japanese)
Contemporary Digital Library at the National Diet Library
– Digitized images of ''Jitsuyō kōtō sūgaku,'' ''Rikigaku,'' ''Hōshanō gairon'' and ''Rironbutsurigaku'' can be viewed here. (Japanese)
– Online version of ''Denkigaku no taito Faradē no den'' at Aozora Bunko (Japanese) 20th-century Japanese physicists 1880 births 1923 deaths University of Tokyo alumni Academic staff of the University of Tokyo Academic staff of Kyoto University Academic staff of Tohoku University Deaths from food poisoning {{Japan-scientist-stub