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was a Japanese electrical engineer from Osaka. When working at Tohoku University, he wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna design by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world. The Yagi antenna, patented in 1926, allows directional communication using electromagnetic waves, and is now installed on millions of houses throughout the world for radio and television reception. He also tried, unsuccessfully, to introduce a wireless power transmission system. He participated in establishing the Chiba Institute of Technology.〔(Chiba Institute of Technology history )〕 He was the fourth president of Osaka University from February 1946 to December 1946.〔(Osaka University history )〕 In 1942, he became Director of the Industrial Sciences Faculty of the Tokyo University, in year 1944 he became General Director of the Technology Institute, and in year 1946 also General Director of the Osaka Imperial University. He was decorated with the Medal of Honor with Blue Ribbon Award in 1951, with the Order of Culture in 1956, and posthumously with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1976. == Biography == Hidetsugu Yagi was born on January 28, 1886 in Osaka Prefecture. After he graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Tokyo Imperial University, Faculty of Sciences, in 1909, he studied from 1913 in England, America, and Germany, and in Germany he continued research of generation of electric waves used for wireless communication. He returned to Japan in 1930. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hidetsugu Yagi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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