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Study of shifts in the domestic and international evaluation of scientific research in Japan based on the Nobel Archives

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00251
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 01080:Sociology of science, history of science and technology-related
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

Okamoto Takuji  東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (30262421)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Keywords湯川秀樹 / 朝永振一郎 / 北里柴三郎 / 野口英世 / 山極勝三郎 / 鈴木梅太郎 / 素粒子論 / 科学論 / 伝染病 / 細菌学 / 人工癌 / 物性物理学 / 綜合科学 / マルクス主義 / 聖断 / 日本科学 / 篠原雄 / 純粋科学 / 基礎研究 / 長岡半太郎 / 廣重徹 / ノーベル賞 / 癌研究
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The influence of Yukawa Hideki's Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 was important. Since then, the number of nominations for the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry by domestic researchers increased. Meanwhile, as in the case of Tomonaga Sin-itiro, who won the Physics Prize in 1965, there were patterns that winning the Nobel Prize confirmed the significance of Japanese contributions, which remained relatively obscure to foreign nominators, in comparison with other foreign scientists' contributions. In medicine and bilogy, despite significant achievements like Yamagiwa Katsusaburo's, the delay in awarding Japanese scientists caused low international evaluation, while frustrated Japanese scientists complained seemingly unfair international judgments, though they seldom had chances to discuss this issue with their foreign colleagues.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

一国の科学研究の水準についての評価を客観的に実施することは困難であり、また、一般的な印象は、よく知られた国際的な賞の受賞などに影響を受けることが多い。賞の場合には、受賞者数によって科学研究の水準の推移を検討することも可能であるが、サンプル数が少ない場合にはその実施は困難である。
本研究ではノーベル賞を取り上げ、受賞ではなく推薦に注目し、その推移によって日本の科学研究に対する国際的評価の変遷を示した。併せて、受賞による印象の変化も大きく、受賞者の誕生が先行した物理学と、研究水準に比して評価の遅れた医学では、自国の科学研究の水準に関する、国内外での印象に大きな差異が生ずることも論じた。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (24 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (15 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 7 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (1 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] スウェーデン王立科学アカデミー/科学史研究所(スウェーデン)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] トレント大学/イノベーション研究科(イタリア)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] The Physicist on Board―The Friendship between Einstein and a Japanese Diplomat's Family2023

    • Author(s)
      岡本 拓司
    • Journal Title

      Butsuri

      Volume: 78 Issue: 2 Pages: 91-94

    • DOI

      10.11316/butsuri.78.2_91

    • ISSN
      0029-0181, 2423-8872
    • Year and Date
      2023-02-05
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Electricity Matters, but Is Electricity Matter? : Physicists and Jurists on Power Theft in Early 20th Century Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      OKAMOTO, Takuji
    • Journal Title

      哲学・科学史論叢

      Volume: 24 Pages: 23-40

    • DOI

      10.15083/0002003244

    • NAID

      120007192090

    • URL

      https://repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/records/2003244

    • Year and Date
      2022-02-15
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 戦前期の日本人科学者とノーベル賞:生理学・医学賞の事例から2022

    • Author(s)
      岡本 拓司
    • Journal Title

      化学と教育

      Volume: 70(8) Pages: 384-387

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 近代日本における科学論の展開 : 廣重徹の「科学の体制化」を手掛かりに2022

    • Author(s)
      岡本拓司
    • Journal Title

      近代教育フォーラム

      Volume: 31 Pages: 42-50

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 近代日本における科学論の展開 --科学と国家の関わりをめぐる議論を中心に--2022

    • Author(s)
      岡本 拓司
    • Journal Title

      日本哲学史研究

      Volume: 18 Pages: 1-30

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 歴史と物理学2021

    • Author(s)
      岡本 拓司
    • Journal Title

      Physics Education in University

      Volume: 27 Issue: 2 Pages: 93-96

    • DOI

      10.11316/peu.27.2_93

    • NAID

      130008074511

    • ISSN
      1340-993X, 2432-1710
    • Year and Date
      2021-07-15
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Nominating Bridgman for the Nobel Prize: The Motives and Strategy of the Harvard Scientists2020

    • Author(s)
      OKAMOTO Takuji
    • Journal Title

      Historia Scientiarum

      Volume: 30 Pages: 61-90

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 天皇制国家の中の科学と宗教:調和と相克の軌跡2020

    • Author(s)
      岡本拓司
    • Journal Title

      現代思想

      Volume: 48:15 Pages: 193-203

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] The Japanese Scientists Who Were Awarded the Nobel Prize between 1989 and 20182019

    • Author(s)
      岡本拓司
    • Journal Title

      Butsuri

      Volume: 74 Issue: 5 Pages: 298-299

    • DOI

      10.11316/butsuri.74.5_298

    • NAID

      130007723456

    • ISSN
      0029-0181, 2423-8872
    • Year and Date
      2019-05-05
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 半世紀前の革命論2019

    • Author(s)
      岡本拓司
    • Journal Title

      Physics Education in University

      Volume: 25 Issue: 1 Pages: 10-14

    • DOI

      10.11316/peu.25.1_10

    • NAID

      130007632690

    • ISSN
      1340-993X, 2432-1710
    • Year and Date
      2019-03-15
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 科学史と大学史の新たな交流の可能性―科学史からみた大学史―2019

    • Author(s)
      岡本拓司
    • Journal Title

      大学史研究

      Volume: 28巻 Pages: 41-59

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 反相対論者と学界警察 : 一九二〇年代初頭、日本科学界の一断面2019

    • Author(s)
      岡本拓司
    • Journal Title

      現代思想

      Volume: 47巻10号 Pages: 180-191

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] ノーベル賞と日本 : 最初の化学賞受賞者が出るまで2019

    • Author(s)
      岡本拓司
    • Journal Title

      化学と教育

      Volume: 67 Pages: 32-35

    • NAID

      130007778990

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 科学的精神か科学精神か:基本国策要綱から科学技術新体制確立要綱へ2019

    • Author(s)
      岡本拓司
    • Journal Title

      哲学・科学史論叢

      Volume: 21 Pages: 1-27

    • NAID

      120006554946

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 真空からみた物理学の歩み2018

    • Author(s)
      岡本拓司
    • Journal Title

      Butsuri

      Volume: 73 Issue: 4 Pages: 237-239

    • DOI

      10.11316/butsuri.73.4_237

    • NAID

      130007590458

    • ISSN
      0029-0181, 2423-8872
    • Year and Date
      2018-04-05
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] A Japanese Christian Physicist Defends Evolution: British Influences upon Kimura Shunkichi’s Philosophical Scrutiny of Science2022

    • Author(s)
      Okamoto Takuji
    • Organizer
      Transnational Studies of 19th-Century Japanese and British Science conference
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] "Beat Those Yattya Bottya People": Nurturing Pure Science in Prewar Japan, The Case of Nuclear Physics2019

    • Author(s)
      OKAMOTO Takuji
    • Organizer
      15th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] We Shall Be Able to Beat Those Yattya Bottya People2018

    • Author(s)
      Takuji Okamoto
    • Organizer
      Japan in the Global 21st Century
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 半世紀前の革命論2018

    • Author(s)
      岡本拓司
    • Organizer
      日本物理学会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 近代日本の科学論2021

    • Author(s)
      岡本 拓司
    • Total Pages
      552
    • Publisher
      名古屋大学出版会
    • ISBN
      4815810192
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 久保亮五生誕百年記念 「原理の学」に魅せられて 物理学者・久保亮五の研究と人生

    • URL

      http://museum.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/2021.html#kubo2021

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 2019年春季所蔵品展「澁澤元治の軌跡-一高・東大・万博-」

    • URL

      http://museum.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/2018.html#shibusawa2019

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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