Osaka University facts for kids
Osaka University is a national university of Japan. It was started in 1869. It is in Osaka. It has 11 departments.
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Osaka Imperial University Nakanoshima campus
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Osaka University Toyonaka Campus Main Entrance
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Osaka University Hospital
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Hantaro Nagaoka (長岡 半太郎), 1st President of OU, the pioneer of Japanese physics.
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Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹), physicist and recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Yoichiro Nambu (南部 陽一郎), physicist and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Akira Yoshino (吉野 彰), chemist and recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Hiroshi Ishiguro (石黒 浩), creator of Geminoid robots.
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Tadamitsu Kishimoto (岸本 忠三), a Japanese immunologist, 14th President of OU, 2009 Crafoord Prize winner.
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Toshio Hirano (平野 俊夫), a Japanese immunologist, 17th President of OU, 2009 Crafoord Prize winner.
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Kiyoshi Nagai, a Japanese structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, UK.
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Shimon Sakaguchi (坂口 志文), immunologist, 2015 Gairdner Award and 2017 Crafoord Prize winner
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Pratiwi Sudarmono, an Indonesian scientist of microbiology.
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Akio Morita (盛田 昭夫), Sony co-founder, Asian of the Century The Big Five.
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Masataka Taketsuru (竹鶴 政孝), the father of Japan's whisky industry.
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Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫), Japanese manga artist, cartoonist, and animator.
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Ryōtarō Shiba (司馬 遼󠄁太郎), One of the most important writers in contemporary Japan.
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Michio Morishima (森嶋 通夫), economist, co-founder of International Economic Review.
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Shizuo Kakutani (角谷 静夫), mathematician, professor at Yale, known for Kakutani fixed-point theorem.
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Jun-iti Nagata (長田 潤一), a Japanese mathematician specializing in topology.
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Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda (池田 正敏), a Turkish mathematician of Japanese ancestry.
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Norihiko Hibino (日比野 則彦), a Japanese video game composer and saxophonist.
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See also
In Spanish: Universidad de Osaka para niños
