Japan Society Educator's Tour - Day 5 (Kochi)

Jul 13, 2011 22:41

Arriving at the top, we were greeted by a television camera. I forgot that we were greeted at the Kochi City station by a camera crew as well. Apparently the Ryouma Sakamoto crew was going to be filming and taking pictures of us as we toured the schools, and there was also a crew from NHK, which is Japan’s version of TBS - a public broadcasting ( Read more... )

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kimi_no_tsuki July 13 2011, 14:53:21 UTC
I can’t really make the katakana sound like any scientist I know. Maybe Bellisarius?

The picture is small, so it's hard to see, but under his name I think it says Sweden and then has the dates that he lived. Maybe that will help in identifying him, lol....

After writing that I got curious and looked him up, lol ;^^
Jöns Jakob Berzelius... still don't know who he is, but maybe you do?

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rainawallis July 14 2011, 12:42:20 UTC
Found him!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6ns_Jacob_Berzelius

Apparently, he was the first one to use chemical notation (ie: H2O where the 2 is supposed to be a subscript, but he actually made it a super script - if that makes sense ^_^;;)

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