©2010 Keiko Kawashima / Emi Higashiura
1909 Born in Ueno, Tokyo.
She liked both human & natural sciences.
1927 Entered Tokyo Higher Normal School of Women (THNSW).
1931 Entered Tokyo Bunrika Univ.The very first female student in physics in Japan.
1937 Became associate prof. of THNSW. Inspired by a Joliot-Curie's article on artificial radioactivity.
1940 Left for France as scholaship student of French gouverment (in WWⅡ).
No place for Yuasa in the Radium Institute.
1940 Frédéric Joliot-Curie accepted Yuasa in the College de France.
1943 Ph D. of the French National Doctorate in physics.
1944 Japanese embassy urget the Japanese to evacuate from Paris.
1945 Returned to THNSW. But bad condition for experiment.
1949 As Frédéric invited Yuasa, she returned to Paris.
1954 Yuasa became reseachers of CNRS. Death of Irène (1956) and Frédéric
As an active scientist and as an intelligent essayst.
Yuasa made many phon calls to Japan for promotion of Japan-France research collaboration.
1980 Died of cancer in Paris.
2002 Estalishment of a scholaship in Yuasa's name by Ochanomizu Univ. (*The THNSW became Ochanomizu University after WWⅡ..)