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    Ukichiro Nakaya (中谷 宇吉郎, Nakaya Ukichirō, July 4, 1900 – April 11, 1962) was a Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology...
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    She is best known for her fog sculptures. Nakaya was born in Sapporo in 1933, where her father Ukichirō Nakaya, who is credited with making the first artificial...
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  • ichthyologist Riki Nakaya (中矢 力, born 1989), Japanese judoka Sayaka Nakaya (仲谷 明香, born 1991), Japanese voice actress, singer and idol Ukichiro Nakaya (中谷 宇吉郎,...
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    Bentley found the wide variety of snowflakes we know about today. Ukichiro Nakaya developed a crystal morphology diagram, relating crystal shape to the...
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  • named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–62), a Japanese Professor of Physics from the Hokkaido University...
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    1947, after Japanese newspapers picked up the story, the physicist Ukichiro Nakaya verified experimentally that eggs can be balanced with ease at any...
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    set of patterns. Closely matching snow crystals have been observed. Ukichiro Nakaya developed a crystal morphology diagram, relating crystal shapes to...
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  • Artificial snowflake The first artificial snowflake was created by Ukichiro Nakaya in 1936, three years after his first attempt. Canned coffee Canned...
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  • Naipaul (1932–2018, Trinidad and Tobago) Nakane Kōtei (1839–1913, Japan) Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–1962, Japan) Marie NDiaye (born 1967, France) John Neal (1793–1876...
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  • Cockcroft (1897–1967) Patrick Blackett (Baron Blackett) (1897–1974) Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–1962) Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) Ernest Lawrence (1901–1958) Walter...
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  • Japan Hantaro Nagaoka, postulator of the Saturnian model of the atom Ukichiro Nakaya, physicist and essayist Yoshio Nishina, leading atomic physicist who...
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  • saturation, later called the Nakaya Diagram. 1938 - Ukichiro Nakaya publishes Snow (雪) 1949 - Ukichiro Nakaya publishes Research of snow (雪の研究, Yuki no kenkyu)...
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  • March 15 – Kenji Tomiki, aikido and judo teacher (d. 1979) July 4 – Ukichiro Nakaya, physicist (d. 1962) July 5 – Yoshimaro Yamashina, ornithologist (d...
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    the axis perpendicular to the hexagonal plane to form snow crystals. Ukichiro Nakaya developed a crystal morphology diagram, relating crystal shape to the...
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    been assembled into a field guide by the museum. Patterns in nature Ukichiro Nakaya Karl Blossfeldt Shz.de "Historic Bentley snowflake photos for sale...
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    Baba Katsuzo Kuronuma Yasunori Miyoshi Katsuma Dan Hiroshi Nakamura Ukichiro Nakaya Yusuke Hagihara Isao Imai Shintaro Uda Kinjiro Okabe Ozawa Yoshiaki...
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  • snowflake The first artificial snowflake was created by Japanese physicist Ukichiro Nakaya in 1936, three years after his first attempt. Rollerball pen The first...
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  • educator (b. 1875) 1960 – Rosa Grünberg, Swedish actress (b. 1878) 1962 – Ukichiro Nakaya, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1900) 1962 – George Poage, American...
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  • Masatoshi Koshiba, Nobel laureate Ryogo Kubo Moi Meng Ling Hantaro Nagaoka Ukichiro Nakaya Yoichiro Nambu, Nobel laureate Yoshio Nishina Seiji Ogawa, discoverer...
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  • David Linton – geographer John Milne – inventor of the Seismometer Ukichiro Nakaya – glaciologist David Potts – geotechnical engineer Sir Arthur Russell...
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    M Kotlyakov G Østrem G Wakahama Yang Zhenniang K Higuchi See also Ukichiro Nakaya International Association of Cryospheric Sciences "The Seligman Crystal"...
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    in the Monthly Weather Review. Ukichiro Nakaya began an extensive study on snowflakes in 1932. From 1936 to 1949, Nakaya created the first artificial snow...
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    Gallery of Australia in Canberra. Artist is Fujiko Nakaya (born 1933 Japan, daughter of Ukichiro Nakaya). The sculpture was made in 1976 and purchased in...
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  • Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) from 1985 to 1994. Ukichiro Nakaya 1900 1962 Studied Tyndall figures, created first artificial snowflakes...
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  • 1994 PF22 Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) JPL · 10151 10152 Ukichiro 1994 RJ11 Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–1962), professor of physics at Hokkaido University,...
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  • (Franklin's death in 1958 made her ineligible for the award). 1954 - Ukichiro Nakaya's book Snow Crystals: Natural and Artificial, dedicated to the modern...
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    Physics Institutions Tokyo Imperial University, Earthquake Research Institute, RIKEN Doctoral advisor Hantaro Nagaoka Notable students Ukichiro Nakaya...
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  • Japan and is replaced by radical militarist Kōki Hirota. March 12 – Ukichiro Nakaya creates the first artificial snow crystal. May 11 – According to Japanese...
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    the group exhibition "Conversations with Snow and Ice", dedicated to Ukichiro Nakaya' scientific work on snow and ice, in 2005. This exhibition was one...
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    1945 (35th) Kinpei Matsuoka 1941 (31st) Seiichi Iwao Shinobu Ishihara Ukichiro Nakaya 1940 (30th) Mokichi Saitō 1937 (27th) Ryōzō Kanehira 1932 (22nd) Motonori...
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