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THE death of Prof. T. Terada on December 31, 1935, has deprived Japanese science of one of its most active and useful students. Born of a noble family in Tokyo on November 28, 1878, he studied experimental physics in the Imperial University of that city. In 1909, he received the degree of doctor of science, and in the following year left for a course of two years' training in cosmical physics in Europe and America. In 1916, he was appointed professor of physics in the Imperial University. He was one of the principal founders of the Earthquake Research Institute. Though, for more than twenty years, he suffered from serious illness, Terada's scientific memoirs are very numerous and cover a wide range of subjects, including seismology, oceanography, meteorology, terrestrial magnetism, etc. They are now being collected by a committee of friends and former pupils, and, when published, will fill about twenty volumes. Of scarcely less value, however, was the advice that he gave to his friends and students, who bear cordial witness to this assistance in many a memoir published in the Bulletin of the Earthquake Research Institute
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[Obituary]. Nature 137, 857 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137857a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137857a0