astronomy

Umetaro Suzuki

Umetaro Suzuki is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Umetaro Suzuki rather than just read about it. In short: Umetaro Suzuki (鈴木梅太郎, Suzuki Umetarō; April 7, 1874 – September 20, 1943) was a Japanese scientist, born in what is now part of Makinohara, Shizuoka, Japan. He was a member of the Imperial Academy, and a recipient of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure and the Order of Culture.

Key takeaways

Umetaro Suzuki belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Umetaro Suzuki to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Umetaro Suzuki from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Umetaro Suzuki (鈴木梅太郎, Suzuki Umetarō; April 7, 1874 – September 20, 1943) was a Japanese scientist, born in what is now part of Makinohara, Shizuoka, Japan. He was a member of the Imperial Academy, and a recipient of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure and the Order of Culture. His research was among the earliest of modern vitamin research.

Biography Suzuki was born as the second son of a farmer in Haibara District, Shizuoka. He was a graduate of one of the predecessors of Tokyo Imperial University and subsequently worked as a research scientist at Riken. In 1901, he studied Peptide synthesis at the Humboldt University of Berlin under Emil Fischer. He returned to Japan in 1906, and accepted a post as professor of agricultural chemistry at Tokyo Imperial University in 1907. In 1910, Suzuki succeeded in extracting a water-soluble complex of micronutrients from rice bran and named it aberic acid, and which had the effect of curing patients of beriberi. He published this discovery in a Japanese scientific journal. When the article was translated into German, the translation failed to state that it was a newly discovered nutrient, a claim made in the original Japanese article, and hence his discovery failed to gain publicity. Polish biochemist Kazimierz Funk isolated the same complex of micronutrients and proposed the complex be named "vitamine" (from "vital amine") in 1912. In 1935, this compound was refined and correctly described as thiamine. On April 18, 1985, the Japan Patent Office selected him as one of Ten Japanese Great Inventors.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Umetaro Suzuki

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Umetaro Suzuki claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Umetaro Suzuki before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Umetaro Suzuki ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Umetaro Suzuki

In research: Umetaro Suzuki appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Umetaro Suzuki in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Umetaro Suzuki is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1874 births, 1943 deaths, Humboldt University of Berlin alumni, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Umetaro Suzuki outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Umetaro Suzuki in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Umetaro Suzuki matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Umetaro Suzuki?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Umetaro Suzuki.