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Japanese mathematician and administrator

Kwanichi Terazawa
Born (1882-07-15)July 15, 1882Yonezawa, Japan
Died February 5, 1969(1969-02-05) (aged 86)
Citizenship Japan
Alma mater Imperial University of Tokyo
Awards Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1965)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Imperial University of Tokyo
Doctoral advisor Joseph Larmor
Doctoral students Takahiko YamanouchiMasao KotaniTosio KatoIsao Imai

Kwanichi Terazawa (寺沢 寛一, Terazawa Kan'ichi, July 15, 1882 – February 5, 1969) was a Japanese mathematician and administrator.

Terazawa was born in Yonezawa, graduated from the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1908 following the study of physics, and earned his D.Sc. degree in 1917. His career at the Imperial University of Tokyo lasted from 1918 to his retirement in 1949 where he was professor of physics, while having served as professor at the Aeronautical Research Institute for nineteen of those years. He served as the director of that institution in 1942–1943 and as professor at the Earthquake Research Institute from 1936 to 1942 (and as director in 1938–1942). For the period 1938-1943 he was employed as dean of the Faculty of Science and in 1951 he was received at the Japan Academy.[1]

  1. ^ Howell, Jr., B. F. (2003), "Biographies of interest to earthquake and engineering seismologists", International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology, Part B, Volume 81B (First ed.), Academic Press, p. 1781, ISBN 978-0124406582