PROFESSOR TAKEMATU OKADA
寺田寅彦

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【テキスト中に現れる記号について】

[#]:入力者注 主に外字の説明や、傍点の位置の指定
(例)[#地から1字上げ](Geophysical Magazine, Mar. 1932)

〔〕:アクセント分解された欧文をかこむ
(例)town of the 〔Great Tone'〕
アクセント分解についての詳細は下記URLを参照してください
http://aozora.gr.jp/accent_separation.html
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 Prof. Takematu Okada was born on August 17, 1874, In Husa of Tiba Prefecture, a sunny and peaceful riverside town of the 〔Great Tone'〕, within forty kilometres of the Pacific coast. When attending the Imperial University of Tokyo as a student of the College of Science he chose physics as his special course. After graduating in July 1899, he was appointed as an Assistant Meteorologist in the Central Meteorological Observatory of Tokyo. This was at the time when meteorology in our country was still in its infant stage under the care of its foster−fathers, among whom we especially mention Prof. Kiyoo Nakamura, former Director of the Observatory, and Prof.〔Yu^ji Wada〕, later Director of Zinsen Observatory in Korea. At that time the great majority of the students of physics cared little for meteorology and perhaps no one dreamed of the development of this branch of science in this country, a development reserved for future accomplishment by the hand of this young post−graduate in physics.
 The tasks which were entrusted to him were the most difficult ones, −−no less than those of the daily weather forecasting and storm−warnings. A physicist confined in his laboratory or lecture room can scarcely imagine the difficulties met with by those who are in charge of this kind of work, which is in immediate connection with the daily life of people who have little or no understanding of things scientific. He has had, indeed, to endure not only ill−humoured complaints of people but also the most unsympathetic criticisms by journalists and even by some scientists. He has, however, stood manfully in this difficult situation by gradually improving the scientific basis of the method of prediction as well as the organization of the net−w
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