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Hantaro Nagaoka
Japanese physicist (–)
Hantaro Nagaoka (長岡 半太郎, Nagaoka Hantarō, August 19, – December 11, ) was a Japanese physicist and a pioneer of Japanese physics during the Meiji period.
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Life
Nagaoka was born in Nagasaki, Japan on August 19, and educated at the University of Tokyo.[1]:&#;&#; After graduating with a degree in physics in , Nagaoka worked with a visiting Scottish physicist, Cargill Gilston Knott, on early problems in magnetism, namely magnetostriction in liquid nickel.
In , Nagaoka traveled to Europe, where he continued his education at the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Vienna, including courses on Saturn's rings and a course with Ludwig Boltzmann on his Kinetic Theory of Gases, two influences which would be reflected in Nagaoka's later work.
Nagaoka also attended, in , the First International Congress of Physicists in Paris, where he heard Marie Curie lecture on radioactivity, an event that aroused Nagaoka's interest in atomi