was a Japanese academic, physicist, astronomer and president of

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Biography

Shinzō Shinjō was born on 26 August 1873 in

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. He graduated from Department of Physics at Imperial College of Science in 1895 and in 1897 started teaching at a military engineering school. In 1900 he assumed a position of associate professor at Kyoto University in the field of mechanics. Between 1905 and 1907 Shinjo studied astronomy at University of Goettingen in Germany with

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. He defended his PhD in 1909 and later began teaching at a newly established Department of Astronomy in Kyoto. Shinjo was president of Kyoto University from 1929 through 1933. He died of heatstroke in Nanjing in 1938.

Work

Research work of Shinjo was mostly concentrated in

geodesy Geodesy or geodetics is the science of measuring and representing the Figure of the Earth, geometry, Gravity of Earth, gravity, and Earth's rotation, spatial orientation of the Earth in Relative change, temporally varying Three-dimensional spac ...

astrophysics Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. As one of the founders of the discipline, James Keeler, said, astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the ...

and ancient Chinese astronomical history. He spent much effort on accurate measurements of the Earth gravity and magnetic field, which were important in that time. His field measurements were mostly performed in Japan, Germany (

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), China (Singapore),

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and Korea, and he also explored the gravity of the Japan Trench using a navy submarine in 1934. His astronomy achievements included establishment and development of the Space Physics Laboratory at Kyoto University in 1918, where he studied meteors, variable and

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Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Shinzō Shinjō,

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encompasses roughly 40+ works in 50+ publications in 4 languages and 200+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities新城新藏 1873–1938
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''On the rotation of celestial bodies''
(1918), in English * ''Superstition'' (迷信) (1925) * 東洋天文學史研究 (1928) * 東洋天文學史研究 (1933) * 科學 (天文) (1935) * ''Ancient Chinese Astronomy'' (中國上古天文) (1936)

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shinjo, Shinzo 20th-century Japanese astronomers Japanese physicists Presidents of Kyoto University Academic staff of Kyoto University 1873 births 1938 deaths Scientists from Fukushima Prefecture