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- [Environmental Principles](https://gpes.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/faculty-staff/environmental-principles/)
  - [Ishihara, Kohji](https://gpes.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/faculty-staff/environmental-principles/kohji-ishihara.html)
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#### Environmental Principles

##### Okamoto, Takuji

Professor\
Ph. D.

Website

<http://hps.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/staff/_data/okamoto_takuji/index_en.php>

okamototakuji[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

TEL: +81-3-5454-6694   FAX: +81-3-5454-6978

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###### Research Interest

History of science and technology, history of higher education

###### Summary of qualifications

Ph. D. (History of Science, Univ. of Tokyo, 2004), M. Sc. (History of Science, Univ. of Tokyo, 1991), B. Sc. (Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, 1989)

###### Specialty

The reception of quantum physics in the United States, especially the establishment of theoretical physics at Harvard; The origins and development of operationalism; The acceptance of modern science in Japan and the evolution of the community of Japanese scientists; History of electrical engineering in modern Japan; Historical scientific instruments

###### Recent publications

Takuji OKAMOTO, "The First Higher School's Instruments for Science and Engineering Education," Historia Scientiarum, 20-3 (2011), pp. 196-211.\
Takuji OKAMOTO, "Science and Competition: The Case of Physics in Japan, 1886-1949," UTCP (University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy) Bulletin, VI (2006), pp. 57-67.\

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