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Yoshio Nishina

Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (died 1951)

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Born
December 6, 1890
Died
January 10, 1951
Zodiac sign
Sagittarius
Birth year
1890

About Yoshio Nishina

Yoshio Nishina (仁科 芳雄, Nishina Yoshio; December 6, 1890 – January 10, 1951) was a Japanese physicist who was called "the founding father of modern physics research in Japan". He led the efforts of Japan to develop an atomic bomb during World War II. In 1928, he wrote a paper on incoherent or Compton scattering with Oskar Klein in Copenhagen, from which the Klein–Nishina formula derives. He established Nishina Laboratory at RIKEN in 1931, and invited.

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Yoshio Nishina timeline

  1. In 1928, he wrote a paper on incoherent or Compton scattering with Oskar Klein in Copenhagen, from which the Klein–Nishina formula derives.
  2. He established Nishina Laboratory at RIKEN in 1931, and invited.

The world when Yoshio Nishina was born

Yoshio Nishina was born in 1890. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineWounded Knee Massacre — last major conflict with Native Americans
  • Technology milestoneElectric chair used for first execution
  • Notable inventionElectric chair
  • World population~1.5B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderBenjamin Harrison
  • U.S. population63.0M

1890 versus 2026

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Measure18902026
Postage stamp$0.02$0.73
Population63.0M341 million

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