Kenji Yoshihara (1929-2022): Shedding light on the work of Masataka Ogawa on his discovery of the element "Nipponium." An obituary-tribute

Maeno, Yoshiteru

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Title

Kenji Yoshihara (1929-2022): Shedding light on the work of Masataka Ogawa on his discovery of the element "Nipponium." An obituary-tribute

Author(s)

Maeno, Yoshiteru

Contributor(s)

• Hisamatsu, Yoji
• Egashira, Kazuhiro

Issue Date

2023-11-01T05:00:00Z

Keyword(s)

• Chemistry
• History
• Biog Yoshihara
• Ogawa
• Nipponium
• Rhenium

Abstract

Describes life and work of radiochemist and historian Kenji Yoshihara (1929-2022), with emphasis on Yoshihara's historical work on Masataka Ogawa. In 1908 Ogawa reported a new element he named nipponium. Yoshihara made a strong case that Ogawa had actually observed rhenium before its later recognized discovery.

Publisher

Division of the History of Chemistry

ISSN

1053-4394

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2023v048p236

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