Araki Toshima

Astronomer. Born in Kumamoto Prefecture. After graduating from Hiroshima Higher Normal School, he entered the Department of Physics at Kyoto Imperial University, Faculty of Science, and transferred to the Department of Astrophysics the following year, graduating in March 1923 (Taisho 12). In April of the same year, he became a lecturer at the same university, later an associate professor and then a professor, and was active in many fields during this time. He contributed to the development of Japanese astronomy, but resigned from his position as a professor at Kyoto University at the end of World War II and moved with his family to Kamiyakuno Village, Kyoto Prefecture (now Fukuchiyama City), where he lived a quiet life of farming and reading in the rain and in the sun. In 1965 (Showa 40), he founded Kyoto Sangyo University, became its chairman and president, and devoted himself to the education of his students, but died suddenly on July 10, 1978. He was a man of great learning, with many skills and talents, and wrote many papers, which were published posthumously as "Collected Papers of Araki Toshima." He also wrote a large work on "Celestial Mechanics."

[Toshio Watanabe]

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天文学者。熊本県に生まれる。広島高等師範学校を卒業後、京都帝国大学理学部物理学科に入学、翌年宇宙物理学科に転科、1923年（大正12）3月卒業。同年4月から同大理学部講師、のち助教授、教授となり、この間多方面にわたって活躍。日本天文学の発展に寄与したが、第二次世界大戦の終戦とともに京大教授の職を辞し、京都府上夜久野(かみやくの)村（現福知山市）に一家をあげて閑居、晴耕雨読の生活を送った。1965年（昭和40）京都産業大学を創設、理事長、学長に就任し、子弟の教育に専心したが、昭和53年7月10日急逝した。博覧強記、多技多芸、論文著書も多く、没後『荒木俊馬論文集』として刊行された。『天体力学』の大著もある。

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