Obituary
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Uéno, Masuzo
Archiv für Hydrobiologie Volume 119 Number 3 (1990), p. 359 - 363
published: Oct 15, 1990
DOI: 10.1127/archiv-hydrobiol/119/1990/359
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Abstract
Dr. Masuzo Uéno, Emeritus Professor of Kyoto University and of Konan Women’s University passed away suddenly on 17 June 1989, at the age of 89. He had continued his prolific work of writing until the very night before his death. He was born in Osaka on 26 February 1900. Following the wish of his pharmacist father, he entered the College of Pharmacy at Osaka, though his interests soon turned him towards becoming a naturalist. After graduating from College in 1923, he was admitted to the Faculty of Science at Kyoto Imperial University (since 1949, known as Kyoto University). There, he became influenced by Professor Tamiji Kawamura, whose comprehensive textbook on freshwater biology had been published in 1918 and who was a founder of research in aquatic biology and animal ecology in Japan. Dr. Uéno also had the opportunity to hear the lectures of Viscount Dr. Akamaro Tanaka, the pioneer of Japanese limnology, who undertook the original surveys of a great many of the country’s lakes. In 1926, the young Uéno graduated from the University and obtained a position as a research associate at the Institute of Zoology where he had been studying. In 1929, he was appointed instructor and biologist at the Otsu Hydrobiological Station at Lake Biwa which belongs to the University’s Science Faculty. He received the degree of Doctor of Science from Kyoto Imperial University in 1933 for his study of the taxonomy and ecology of Cladocera, under the supervision of Professor Kawamura.
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