Ken Iwasaki

Japanese: 岩崎憲 - いわさきけん
Ken Iwasaki

Biochemist. Born in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture. Having lost his parents at an early age, he lived in a pharmacy in front of Akamon Gate in Hongo, Tokyo, and worked hard to graduate from the private Tokyo School of Pharmacy (now Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences) in 1907 (Meiji 40). In 1919 (Taisho 8), he became an assistant to Sudo Kenzo (1872-1934) at Kanazawa Medical University (now Kanazawa University School of Medicine), and in 1924 he studied in Germany and Austria. He learned about biochemical research into intracellular metabolism, which was in its infancy at the time, from Mayerhof and others at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (now Max Planck Institute). He returned to Japan in 1931 (Showa 6) and became an assistant professor at Kanazawa Medical University, and a professor there in 1933. He invented and established a special system of micro- and ultra-microanalysis (azotometry), and received the Asahi Culture Prize (1952) and the Japan Academy Prize (1953) for his achievements.

[Toshiro Umeda]

[References] | Azotometry | Meyerhof

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Japanese:

生化学者。福島県会津若松市に生まれる。早く両親と死別し、東京・本郷赤門前の薬局に住み込み、苦学して1907年(明治40)私立東京薬学校(現、東京薬科大学)を卒業。1919年(大正8)金沢医科大学(現、金沢大学医学部)の須藤憲三(すとうけんぞう)(1872―1934)の助手となり、1924年ドイツ、オーストリアに留学。カイザー・ウィルヘルム研究所(現、マックス・プランク研究所)のマイヤーホーフらについて、当時、勃興(ぼっこう)期にあった細胞内代謝の生化学的研究を学んだ。1931年(昭和6)帰国して金沢医大助教授、1933年同教授となった。特殊な微量ないしは超微量分析法の体系(アゾトメトリー)を創案、確立し、その業績により朝日文化賞(1952)、日本学士院賞(1953)などを受けた。

[梅田敏郎]

[参照項目] | アゾトメトリー | マイヤーホーフ

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