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MEN of science in this country and in Japan will hear with much regret of the premature death, on March 2, of Baron T. Kikuchi at the age of twentv-seven. The son of a distinguished father, the late Baron Kikuchi, at one time Minister of Education in Japan, he had a distinguished career in the University of Tokyo, specialising in physics under the direction of Prof. Nagaoka. In 1919 he came to England to work in the Cavendish Laboratory under the direction of Sir Ernest Rutherford. His first paper, published in 1920 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society in conjunction with Dr. F. Aston, contained a careful and able examination of the nature and velocity of the swiftly moving striations observed in neon and helium. An account of further independent work on this subject is in course of publication. In the midst of the preparations for the experimental attack on an important physical problem Baron Kikuchi was taken ill and died after a two months' illness in a, nursing home in Cambridge. During his illness he was devotedly attended by his young wife, who had come from Japan to join him a few months before. Like his father before him a member of St. John's College, a special memorial service was conducted in the college chapel by the Master, attended by the Vice-Chancellor of the University. The remains were taken to London for cremation.
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R., E. Baron T. Kikuchi. Nature 107, 83–84 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107083a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107083a0