Born into a farming family in Horinouchi village, Shizuoka (Makinohara).
He graduated in agriculture from the Imperial University.
He studied in Germany under the chemist Emil Fischer.
After returning home, he became a professor at Tokyo Imperial University.
He reported that a substance in rice bran was effective against beriberi, which afflicted many people.
He named the substance extracted from rice bran "oryzanin"; it was what is now called vitamin B1.
He became a researcher at RIKEN.
He developed a synthetic sake made without rice.
He died in the year he received the Order of Culture.
Shimamura HōgetsuSakai ToshihikoIzumi KyōkaMinobe TatsukichiYanagita KunioUemura ShōenYoshino SakuzōArishima Takeo
People of the Taishō period ・ People by period
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