1. Ukichiro Nakaya was a Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences.
23 Facts About Ukichiro Nakaya
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Ukichiro Nakaya is credited with making the first artificial snowflakes.
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Ukichiro Nakaya later wrote that his father wanted him to be a potter and sent him to live with a potter while he was in primary school.
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Ukichiro Nakaya's father died after he finished primary school, but Nakaya's first scientific paper, written in 1924 for the inaugural issue of the proceedings of the Physics Department of Tokyo Imperial University, was devoted to Japanese Kutani porcelain.
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Ukichiro Nakaya was inspired to study physics in high school by the nebular hypotheses of Kant and Laplace and by the works of Hajime Tanabe.
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Ukichiro Nakaya majored in experimental physics under Torahiko Terada at Tokyo Imperial University and graduated in 1925.
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Ukichiro Nakaya studied electrostatic discharge as an assistant professor at Tokyo Imperial University.
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In 1943, two years after the Pacific War began, Ukichiro Nakaya moved to a newly built atmospheric icing observatory at Mt.
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Ukichiro Nakaya always enjoyed field work as well as laboratory research.
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Ukichiro Nakaya's studies took him to locations ranging from the top of Mauna Loa, Hawaii to the ice island T-3 in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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In 1949, on the invitation of the International Glaciological Society, Ukichiro Nakaya toured the United States and Canada and attended the meeting establishing SIPRE.
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In 1960, Ukichiro Nakaya underwent surgery for prostate cancer at the hospital at the University of Tokyo.
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From 1933, Ukichiro Nakaya observed natural snow and created 3,000 photographic plates of snow crystals, classifying them into seven major and numerous minor types.
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Ukichiro Nakaya generated water vapor in a dual-layer hollow glass tube, which was then cooled.
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One day Ukichiro Nakaya found a snow crystal on the tip of a hair of a rabbit-fur coat in the lab.
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Such photographs, collected in Bentley's book Snow Crystals, which Ukichiro Nakaya admired greatly, later influenced Ukichiro Nakaya's own work.
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Ukichiro Nakaya continued his research into snow crystals and elucidated how their various patterns are produced in nature.
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Ukichiro Nakaya published his Nakaya Diagram, which describes the relationships among vapor, temperature, supersaturation, and excess vapor density in clouds.
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Ukichiro Nakaya's achievement is commemorated today by a hexagonal stone monument at the site of his laboratory on the campus of Hokkaido University.
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Ukichiro Nakaya produced a number of documentary films and radio programs.
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Ukichiro Nakaya died in Japan of diphtheria while Nakaya was studying at King's College.
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Ukichiro Nakaya's daughter Fujiko Nakaya, born in 1933, is an artist known for her fog sculptures.
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Ukichiro Nakaya had two other daughters, Sakiko and Miyoko Nakaya.