is a

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in Japan. Its main campus is in Tempaku-ku,

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, and it has two other campuses in

. It had two faculty members who were

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as of 2021.

History

The name Meijō derives itself from the abbreviated form of . The predecessor of the school was founded by Juichi Tanaka in ; it was chartered as a university in 1949. It is the largest university in the

Chūkyō Metropolitan Area , or the , is a major metropolitan area in Japan that is centered on the city of Nagoya (the "Nagoya#Etymology, Chūkyō", i.e., the "capital in the middle") in Aichi Prefecture. The area makes up the most urbanized part of the Tōkai region. The ...

Campus

File:Distant View of the Buildings of Meijo University (1), Ueda Tempaku Ward Nagoya 2021.jpg, Tenpaku campus（Main） File:名城大学八事キャンパス - Panoramio 50818000.jpg, Yagoto campus File:Higashi 20210510-15.jpg, Nagoya Dome campus

Notable faculty

* Ryōji Noyori, guest professor of Meijo University,RYOJI NOYORI PRESIDENT, RIKEN AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, NAGOYA UNIVERSITY / BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY / HETEROCYCLES, Vol.76, No.1, 2008 5
/ref> awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry * Sumio Iijima, tenured professor of Meijo University, scientist, awarded the 2008

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, the 2009

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and so on * Isamu Akasaki, tenured professor of Meijo University, scientist, awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics * Hiroshi Amano, former professor of Meijo University, awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics *

Akira Yoshino is a Japanese chemist. He is a fellow of Asahi Kasei, Asahi Kasei Corporation and a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya. He created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery, which became used widely in cellular phones and noteb ...

, professor of Meijo University, chemist, awarded the 2014

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and the 2019

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Fumitada Itakura is a Japanese scientist. He did pioneering work in statistical signal processing, and its application to speech analysis, synthesis and coding, including the development of the linear predictive coding (LPC) and line spectral pairs (LSP) metho ...

, former professor of Meijo University, scientist, awarded the 2005 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal * Katsuyoshi Kato, Lawyer

Notable graduates

* Yoshihiro Sato, boxer * Tatsutoshi Goto, professional wrestler *

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, actor

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