The University of Tokyo is a national research university in Tokyo, founded in 1877 as the first imperial university of Japan. Hantaro Nagaoka and Masatoshi Koshiba, whose neutrino detector work earned the Nobel Prize in Physics, worked there, and its faculties of science, medicine and engineering made it the center of modern Japanese research. The atlas links scientists to it where their cited articles say they studied or taught there.
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The University of Tokyo (東京大学, Tōkyō daigaku, abbreviated as Tōdai (東大) in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan.
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Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era institutions, its direct precursors include the Tenmongata, founded in 1684, and the Shōheizaka Institute.
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The University of Tokyo (東京大学, Tōkyō daigaku, abbreviated as Tōdai (東大) in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan.
View the SourceKatsuko Saruhashi (Wikipedia)
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Among her other honors, she was the first woman elected to the Science Council of Japan, to earn a doctorate in chemistry from the prestigious University of Tokyo, and to win the Miyake Prize for Geochemistry.
Takaaki Kajita (Wikipedia)
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Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (Wikipedia)
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Leipzig University Institute for Advanced Study Tokyo University of Education RIKEN University of Tokyo
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Leipzig University Institute for Advanced Study Tokyo University of Education RIKEN University of Tokyo
View the SourceKitasato Shibasaburo (Wikipedia)
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Tokyo Imperial University
Masatoshi Koshiba (Wikipedia)
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University of Chicago George Washington University University of Tokyo Tokai University
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