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A historical study on the early postwar developments of nuclear physics in Japan, 1945-1958

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24501244
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Sociology/History of science and technology
Research InstitutionThe Graduate University for Advanced Studies

Principal Investigator

Ito Kenji  総合研究大学院大学, その他の研究科, 准教授 (90345158)

Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords科学史 / 物理学史 / 原子核物理学 / ラジオアイソトープ / 仁科芳雄 / 原子核研究所 / セルフ・オリエンタリズム / バトル・ゾーン / 日本科学史 / 核物理の歴史 / 占領期 / 日本
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to understand the historical process through which the Japanese scientific community reestablished the discipline of nuclear physics after WWII. One of the main themes of this study concerns methodological issues related to historical studies on physics in Japan. For this propose, I attempted to apply a few theoretical concepts, such as “ battle zone” (inspired by Peter L. Galison’s “ trading zone”) and “ self-orientalism.” Case studies of this research include the relation between Japan’s magnetron research during the war and QED after the war, Japan’s import of radioisotopes after the war, and the issue of the “Tanashi Affairs” at the establishment of the Institute for Nuclear Study.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (25 results)

All 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (20 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Invited: 5 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 国際地球観測年における南極観測事業と朝日新聞社 -日本における巨大科学の民間起源-2016

    • Author(s)
      永田健・伊藤憲二
    • Journal Title

      年報 科学・技術・社会

      Volume: 25 Pages: 25-47

    • NAID

      40020921480

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 研究における物質的なものと非物質的なもの―日本の学問史からの視座2015

    • Author(s)
      伊藤憲二
    • Journal Title

      思想

      Volume: 1090 Pages: 34-52

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 「国策の失敗軌道をどう転換するか」に関して科学史家に何ができるか2013

    • Author(s)
      伊藤憲二
    • Journal Title

      年報 科学・技術・社会

      Volume: 22 Pages: 21-29

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Yukawa HIdeki and Self-Orientalism2015

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      History of Science Society Annual Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      San Francisco
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-22
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Electron Theory and Electrical Engineering in Japan2015

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      Interactions of Interwar Physics: Technology, Instruments and Other Sciences
    • Place of Presentation
      Tel Aviv University
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-11
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Science and Cultural Diversity: The Problem of Orientalism2015

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      15th Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (CLMPS)
    • Place of Presentation
      Helsinki University
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-04
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Magnetrons and QED: Engineering and Physics in Tomonaga Sin-itiro2015

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      Fourth Conference on History of Quantum Physics
    • Place of Presentation
      Donostia
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-18
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Defeat and Knowledge Transmission: Nuclear Research in Japan during the Occupation2015

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      The 14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia
    • Place of Presentation
      Paris
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-07
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 仁科芳雄と戦後日本のラジオアイソトープの輸入2015

    • Author(s)
      伊藤憲二
    • Organizer
      日本科学史学会年総会
    • Place of Presentation
      大阪市立大学
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-31
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Mathematical Physics and Cultural Practices in Japan: The Question of Cultural Explanations2015

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      Cultures of Mathematics IV
    • Place of Presentation
      Indian National Science Academy
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-22
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The Dispute over the Establishment of the Institute for Nuclear Study and Socio-Cultural Meanings of Nuclear Physics in Cold War Japan2014

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      History of Science Society Annual Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel, Chicago
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-08
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Disaster, Risk, and Technocrasy in Japanese Popular Culture: An Analysis of Five Versions of ''Japan Sinks'2014

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      Catastrophes, Digital Public Spheres and the Future of Democracy
    • Place of Presentation
      Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
    • Year and Date
      2014-09-12
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Writing the History of Science in Japan in the Age of Globalization: Plurality and Social Bases of Knowledge and its History2014

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      An International Workshop on "the Neuro-Turn and Us: History of Science and Medicine in the Age of Biomedicine"
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Tokyo
    • Year and Date
      2014-06-22
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 原子核研究所「田無問題」における研究者と地域住民2014

    • Author(s)
      伊藤憲二
    • Organizer
      日本科学史学会年会
    • Place of Presentation
      酪農学園大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-24
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Defeat and Knowledge Transmission: Nuclear Research in Japan during the Occupation2014

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      International Conference on the Global STS
    • Place of Presentation
      シンガポール
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Neighbors of Accelerators: Japanese Nuclear Physicists and Local Opposition to the Institute of Nuclear Study, 1952-19552014

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      SOKENDAI-Singapore Workshop
    • Place of Presentation
      横浜
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Science "Made in Japan?": Cultural Diversity and Transnationality in Post-WWII Japanese Nuclear Research2013

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      The 24th International Congress of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    • Place of Presentation
      マンチェスター
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Toshiko Yuasa, Exclusion of Women Scientists in Mid-20th Century Japan2013

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      Japan France Frontier of Science Workshop
    • Place of Presentation
      滋賀県大津市ロイヤルオークホテル
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] David Kaiser著How the Hippies Saved Physicsについて2013

    • Author(s)
      伊藤憲二
    • Organizer
      KEK-IMS Joint Workshop「量子論の深化と発展」
    • Place of Presentation
      愛知県岡崎市明大寺町分子科学研究所
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] What can a nuclear disaster prove about nuclear energy?: Nuclear scientists and robustness of nuclear discourse in post 3.11 Japan2012

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      Society for Social Studies of Science
    • Place of Presentation
      Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] "Samurai science" revisited: Modern science in Japan and its cultural origins2012

    • Author(s)
      Kenji Ito
    • Organizer
      5th European Society for the History of Science Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Athens, Greece
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 1950年代日本の原子物理学に見る専門知と利害関係2012

    • Author(s)
      伊藤憲二
    • Organizer
      日本科学技術社会論学会
    • Place of Presentation
      神奈川県三浦郡葉山町湘南国際村
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 「科学史家の立場(?)から」2012

    • Author(s)
      伊藤憲二
    • Organizer
      日本科学技術社会学会設立大会
    • Place of Presentation
      東京都文京区本郷東京大学本郷キャンパス
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] Science, Technology, and Medicine in Modern Japanese Empire2016

    • Author(s)
      David G. Wittner and Philip C. Brown (eds.)
    • Total Pages
      302
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Histoire des sciences et des savoirs: t. 2, Modernité et globalisation2015

    • Author(s)
      Kapil Raj and Otto Sibum (eds.)
    • Total Pages
      466
    • Publisher
      Seuil
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2013-05-31   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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