Toshiko Yuasa - The first woman nuclear physicist in Japan

  • 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..)