Ozawa Yoshiaki
Yoshiaki Ozawa was a paleontologist and geologist.
After graduating from the University of Tokyo and United States in 1927, collaborating with the Massachusetts researcher Joseph Augustine Cushman. During that period and after return to Japan Ozawa performed mostly foraminifera research, both gathering his own samples and analyzing samples of other researchers.
Five months after his return in Japan, Ozawa contracted typhoid fever and died.
Afterward, the established "The Geological Society of Japan Ozawa Yoshiaki Award" which is granted to young scientists for exceptional contribution to the field of geology.
