Shirōta Kusakabe

Shirōta Kusakabe (Japanese: 日下部 四郎太, May 5 1875 – July 3 1924) was a Japanese geophysicist, doctor of Science.[3] He was a professor at Tohoku Imperial University. He won the Imperial Academy Prize for his work on rock elasticity. He has published numerous treatises, and a magazine published after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 contains a treatise on earthquake prediction by Shirota Kusakabe.[4]

Kotaro Honda, Albert Einstein, Keiichi Aichi and Shirōta Kusakabe on the occasion of Einstein's 1922 visit to Tohoku University[1][2]

Shirōta Kusakabe was born in Yamagata Prefecture in 1875.[5] In 1900, he graduated from the Department of Physics, Tokyo Imperial University. From August 1907 to December 1910, he studied abroad in Europe and visited Germany, France and the United Kingdom.[6][7] He studied under Hantaro Nagaoka and proceeded with research on rocks and seismic waves.[8] In 1914, he won the Imperial Academy Prize for his work on rock elasticity.

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