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Hidetsugu Yagi
八木 秀次
Born
(1886-01-28)January 28, 1886
Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Died
January 19, 1976(1976-01-19) (aged 89)
Nationality
Japanese
Occupation
Engineering scientist
Known for
Yagi–Uda antenna
Awards
Blue Ribbon Award (1951), the Order of Culture (1956) and the Order of the Rising Sun, First Class (1976)
Scientific career
Fields
Electrical engineering
Hidetsugu Yagi (八木 秀次, Yagi Hidetsugu, January 28, 1886 – January 19, 1976) was a Japanese electrical engineer from Osaka, Japan. When working at Tohoku Imperial University, he wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his assistant Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world.
The Yagi-Uda antenna, patented in 1926, allows directional communication using electromagnetic waves, and is now installed on millions of houses throughout the world for radio and television reception.[citation needed] He also tried, unsuccessfully, to introduce a wireless power transmission system.[citation needed] He participated in establishing the Chiba Institute of Technology.[1][citation needed]
He was the fourth president of Osaka University from February 1946 to December 1946.[2]
In 1942, he became the President of Tokyo Institute of Technology, in 1944 he became the President of the Technical Institution, and in 1946 also the President of the Osaka Imperial University. He was decorated with the Medal of Honor with Blue Ribbon Award in 1951, with the Order of Culture in 1956, and posthumously with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1976.[citation needed]
^Chiba Institute of Technology history Archived 2014-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
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