Osaka in the Interwar Period
The atlas holds 4 people and 5 moments here, from 1921 to 1938. The most recorded lives are Hideki Yukawa, Albert Einstein and Yasunari Kawabata.
Notable people
Albert Einstein
in 1922
1 moment here
German-born theoretical physicist who transformed modern physics through special and general relativity, foundational work on quantum theory, and…
Hideki Yukawa
from 1933 to 1938
2 moments here
Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
in 1921
1 moment here
Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, born Ryūnosuke Niihara in Tokyo and adopted into the Akutagawa family.…
Yasunari Kawabata
in 1924
1 moment here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…
Moments
- 1921 Stopped in Osaka en route to China Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1922 Lectures in Osaka Albert Einstein
- 1924 Military examination in Ibaraki Yasunari Kawabata
- 1933 Physics appointment at Osaka Imperial University Hideki Yukawa
- 1938 Doctorate at Osaka Imperial University Hideki Yukawa