Shigeru Nakayama
Shigeru Nakayama was a Japanese historian of science.Life
Nakayama was born in 1928, in Amagasaki, and brought up there. He survived the Hiroshima atom bomb of 1945. He left Hiroshima Higher School in 1948, and graduated from Tokyo University with a degree in mathematical astronomy in 1951.
As a graduate student, Nakayama was a Fulbright scholar. He worked with Thomas Kuhn and then Joseph Needham. Besides those two scholars, he regarded Kiyosi Yabuuti as one of his teachers.
Nakayama was on the staff of Tokyo University from 1960 to 1989. As Professor Emeritus, he was at Kanagawa University.
Nakayama died in Tokyo on Saturday 10 May 2014.Works
