Nakamura Kiyoo

Japanese: 中村精男 - なかむら・きよお

Year of death: January 3, 1930
Year of birth: 18th April 1855 (2nd June 1855)
A meteorologist from the Meiji and Taisho periods. The eldest son of Nakamura Kumekichi, a samurai of the Choshu (Hagi) domain, he studied at the Shoka Sonjuku school. In 1879, he graduated from the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, and worked in the Surveying Division of the Geographical Bureau of the Ministry of the Interior. From 1886 to 1890, he studied meteorology at the University of Berlin and the Hamburg Marine Meteorological Observatory. In 1890, he became head of the Observation and Forecast Division of the Central Meteorological Observatory, which was separated from the Geographical Bureau and placed under the direct control of the Minister of the Interior, and served as the third director of the Central Meteorological Observatory from 1923, when jurisdiction was transferred to the Ministry of Education. Prior to this, in 1881, he founded the Tokyo Physics Training School (Tokyo University of Science) with some of his classmates from the Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, and served as its second principal from 1929 until his death. He received his doctorate in science in 1902 for his book "Nihon Fudohen" (The Japanese Climate), written for the Chicago World's Fair in 1891. He was one of the central figures who guided meteorology and meteorological activities in Japan in its early days. <References> Hidetoshi Arakawa, "History of Meteorology in Japan"

(Tsutomu Tanimoto)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：昭和5.1.3(1930)
生年：安政2.4.18(1855.6.2)
明治大正期の気象学者。長州(萩)藩士中村粂吉の長子で,松下村塾に学ぶ。明治12(1879)年東大理学部物理学科卒業,内務省地理局測量課に奉職する。19年から22年までベルリン大学,ハンブルク海洋気象台で気象学を学ぶ。23年地理局から分離し内務大臣直轄となった中央気象台の観測・予報課長となり,所管が文部省に移った28年から大正12(1923)年まで第3代中央気象台長を務めた。これより先,明治14年には東大物理学科の同窓生たちと東京物理学講習所(東京理科大)を創立し,29年から亡くなるまで第2代の校長を務めた。26年のシカゴ万国博覧会のために書かれた『日本風土編』で,35年に理学博士となる。草創期の日本の気象学と気象事業を指導した中心人物のひとりである。<参考文献>荒川秀俊『日本気象学史』

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