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Taketani Mitsuo | |
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武谷 三男 | |
 Taketani with his son in 1949 | |
| Born | October 2, 1911 Ōmuta, Empire of Japan |
| Died | April 22, 2000 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Tōkai University Osaka University Kyoto University |
Taketani Mitsuo (武谷 三男, October 2, 1911 – April 22, 2000) was a prominent Japanese theoretical physicist and Marxist intellectual. He published his Doctrine of the Three Stages of Scientific Development in 1936. This was the first Japanese contribution to the philosophy of science.
He was jailed in 1938 following making contributions to the Marxist journal Sekai Bunka (World Culture). However, following the intervention of Yoshio Nishina, he was released into the custody of his professor, Hideki Yukawa.[1]
- ^ Brown, Laurie M.; Nambu, Yoichiro. "A History of Nobel Physicists from Wartime Japan". Scientific American. Retrieved 13 April 2019.