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Yūko Kakazu (嘉数悠子 ''Kakazu Yūko'') is a Japanese astronomer. Her specialty is
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Early life and education

Yūko Kakazu was born and raised in
Okinawa most commonly refers to: * Okinawa Prefecture, Japan's southernmost prefecture * Okinawa Island, the largest island of Okinawa Prefecture * Okinawa Islands, an island group including Okinawa itself * Okinawa (city), the second largest city in th ...
, Japan. Her participation in a Space Camp sponsored by
NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...
inspired her to pursue a career related to space. After graduating from
Okinawa Shogaku High School is a middle school and high school in the Kokuba district of Naha, Okinawa is the Cities of Japan, capital city of Okinawa Prefecture, the southernmost prefecture of Japan. As of 1 June 2019, the city has an estimated population of 317,405 a ...
, she began her studies in the Graduate School of Science and Faculty of Science at
Tohoku University is a public research university in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. It is colloquially referred to as or . Established in 1907 as the third of the Imperial Universities, after the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, it initially focused on sc ...
. Though she was initially in the Department of Chemistry, she transferred to the Department of Physics. After graduating with her bachelor's degree from Tohoku University, she got her master's degree and Ph.D. in Astronomy at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...
.


Career and research

She has held research positions in astronomy at the
Institut d'astrophysique de Paris The Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (translated: Paris Institute of Astrophysics) is a research institute in Paris, France. The Institute is part of the Sorbonne University and is associated with the CNRS Centre national de la recherche scientif ...
(starting in 2008), the
California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...
(starting in 2010), and the
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...
(starting in 2011). She began her current position at the NAOJ Hawaii Observatory and
Subaru Telescope is the telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii. It is named after the open star cluster known in English as the Pleiades. It had the largest monolithic primary mirror in the ...
in September 2013. Her research concerns the formation and evolution of galaxies, which are fundamental components of our universe.


See also

*
List of astronomers The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy. They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within ...


References


External links


Yuko Kakazu, Ph.D.
- official webpage
天文学者ゆうこのハワイ便り (Astronomer Yuko's News from Hawai'i)
- official blog

- 講談社が運営するサイト・ ttp://www.rikejo.jp/ 理系女子応援サービス Rikejo内のページ。 * *
From Ancient to Modern Astronomy - Islanders' Perspectives
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