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CURRICULUM VITAE of HIDETO NAKAJIMA
ADDRESS
Dept. of History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and Technology
Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology
Tokyo Institute of Technology
PO Box W9-56, 2-12-1, Ookayama Meguro City, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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Education:
PhD: Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Graduate School of Science
University of Tokyo, 1982-1985 Graduated as Ph.D. candidate
MSc: Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Graduate School of Science
University of Tokyo, 1980-1982
Bachelor: Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts
University of Tokyo, 1976-1980
Degree:
PhD, University of Tokyo (History and Philosophy of Science) in 1995
for PhD Thesis titled
Robert Hooke's Science: Hooke as an Astronomer
SPECIAL PUBLIC AWARD:
Suntory Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences, Winner, Dec. 2006
Science and Technology Prize (Research Section)
endowed by Minister of Education, Japan, Winner, April 2006
http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/18/04/06040521/002.htm
Osaragi Jiro Prize (Asahi Newspaper Nonfiction Prize on his Japanese book
of a Biography of Robert Hooke), Winner, 1998
*Asahi Newspaper is one of Japanese three leading quality papers
Osaragi Jiro Prize is their only nonfiction prize, and among
about 40 former winners, two got Nobel Prize, too.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Research Fellow, Collegium Budapest, Oct. 2005-Aug. 2006 (Sabbatical)
Invited Professor, STS Research Center, Beijin University of Chemical Engineering, 2004-2009
Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Science and Technology Studies, Imperial College
University of London, 1992-1993 (Sabbatical)
Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Philosophy & Social Studies of Science & Technology
Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nov.1995-
Assistant Professor, Division of Socio-Technological Relationship, RCAST
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, 1988-95
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Founding Director, STS Network Japan, 1990-91
Editorial Board Member of Butsuri (Japanese Journal of Physics), 1991-93
Council Member of Japanese Society of Science Policy and Research Management, 1997-
Advisory Committee Member of Transport Technology Policy, Ministry of Transport, 1997-1998
The Program Chair, STS International Conference, Tokyo, Hiroshima & Kyoto, Japan, March 1998
Advisory Committee Member of International Space Station, Science & Technology Agency,
Japanese Government, 1999-2001
Advisory Committee Member of the Council of Science and Technology
Prime Minister's Office, 1999-2001
Council Member of the Society for Social Studies of Science
(Under Presidents Sheila Jasanoff and Wiebe Bijker), 2000-2002
Organizing Committee Member of East Asian STS Network, Seoul, May 2001
Chief Secretary of Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies, 2001-2005
Advisor to Research Initiative of Research of Science and Technology for Society
Ministry of Education & Science, 2001-
Editorial Board Member of an International Journal Social Epistemology, 2002-
Chief Secretary of the First Takeda Symposium at Helsinki and Uppsala, June 2002
Organizing Committee Member of the 6th International Conference on
Technology Policy and Innovation, Keihan-na, Kyoto, Aug. 2002
Organizing Committee Member of East Asian STS Conference in Taipei, Oct. 2003
Organizing Committee Member of East Asian STS Conference in Seoul, Dec. 2004
Academic Commitee Member of STS-Oriented Philosophy and Social Science Innovation Base
985 Project, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, Aug. 2005-
INVITED TALKS:
'Life Skill in Scientific Society in 21st Century'
Public Symposium by Research Center for Human Science, Kobe University, 10 Dec. 1995
'The Dawn of Japanese STS Movement'
Korean Science Writers Association, Taejon, Korea, 22 Jan. 1996
'Social Change and Science and Technology'
Science in Transition, STS Network Japan 18th, Symposium
RCAST, University of Tokyo, 16 March 1996
'Science, Technology and Engineering:
Lessons from History of Science and Technology'
Speech at Main Symposium of Annual Meeting of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, Japan
Tokyo Institute of Technology, 22 March 2000
'Consensus Conference and Science Journalism'
Panel Talk of International Journalist Conference
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, 10 Oct. 2001
'Lessons from History in Science and Innovation Policy'
Discussant, 6th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation
Kyoto, 14 Aug. 2002
'Robert Hooke as an Astronomer'
Hooke 2003, Royal Society, London, 7 July 2003
ACADEMIC TALKS:
'Reproducing Newtonian Optical Experiment'
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society of Japan, 1981
'Two Kinds of Modification of Light: New Interpretation on Newton-Hooke Controversy'
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society of Japan, 1982
'Walter Charleton and Newtonian Optical Theory',
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society of Japan, 1984
'A Computer Expert System for History of Technology'
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society of Japan, 1987
'The Formation of Japanese Electric Industry'
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society of Japan, 1989
'Japanese Miracle?', Workshop of European Association for Studies of
Science and Technology (EASST), Veszprem, Hungary, 1989
'Perspectives to Understand Japanese History of Technology'
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society of Japan, 1991
'Japanese STS Organizations', Annual Meeting of the National
Association for Science, Technology and Society, Washington DC, 1992
'A Categorization of Technology', EASST Meeting
Gothenburg Sweden, 1993
'Astronomical Achievements of Robert Hooke'
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society of Japan, 1994
'STS Activities in Japan', EASST Meeting, Budapest Hungary, 1994
'Astronomical Aspects of Robert Hookeﾕs Scientific Research'
20th International Congress of History of Science, Liege Belgium, 1997
'Technological Innovation as a Paradigm Shift:
The Case of the 'Invention' of 3.5 Inch Floppy Disk', International Conference
on Science, Technology and Society, Kyoto Japan, 1998
'Who Invented Vacuum Tubes?: Sociological Reconstruction of Technological
InventionsﾑFrom SSK to STK', EASST Meeting, Lisbon Portugal, 1998
'Formation and the Present State of Science and Technology Studies in Japan'
Annual Meeting of Society for Sociology of Science, Halifax Canada, 1998
'STS in the World' (Session Chair), EASST Meeting, Wien Austria, 2000
'Problems and Future of STS in Japan'
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society of Japan, 2001
'Engineering Intellect in History'
The First Takeda Symposium, Uppsala Sweden, 2002
'Robert Hooke as an Astronomer'
Hooke 2003, Confernce at the Royal Society, London, 7-8, July)
'A Future of East Asian STS: The Use of an East Asian STS Network', Taipei, 4 Oct. 2003
'Comparisojn of Library Collecrtions of Imperial Universities under Imperial Japan', Seoul, 10 Dec., 2004
'A Categorization of Technologies and the Development of Japanese Modern Technology Before WWII',
2 Sept. 2005, Sixth East Asian STS Conference, Shenyang, China
LIST OF MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
'Two Kinds of Modification Theory of Light: Some New Observation on the Newton-Hooke
Controversy of 1672 Concerning the Nature of Light', Annals of Science
(Taylor & Francis Pub.), 41 (1984), 261-278.
Replaying Science Part 1 (Hokuju Pub., Tokyo, 1987, co-editor, in Japanese).
'Japanese Miracle?: The Case of the Institutionalization of the Japanese
Electric Industry', Scientia Yugoslavica, 15 (1989), 121-125.
'The Formation of Electric Industry in Japan', Kenkyu, Gijutsu, Keikaku
(Journal for Research, Technology and Management), 4 (1989), 135-142 (in Japanese).
'STS: A New Trend in Science Studies', Butsuri (Japanese Journal of Physics)
46 (1991), 403-405 (in Japanese).
'New Science Policy in the United Kingdom', Butsuri, 19 (1993), 737-738 (in Japanese)
What Is Science? (Bokutaku Pub., Tokyo, 1991, co-editor, in Japanese).
Replaying Science Part 2 (Hokuju Pub., Tokyo, 1991, co-editor, in Japanese)
'Robert Hooke's Family and His Youth: Some New Evidence from the Will of the Rev.
John Hooke', Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 48 (1994), 11-16.
Robert Hooke: A Man Erased from History by Isaac Newton
(Asahi Newspaper Publishing Division, 1996, in Japanese)
(Osaragi Jiro Prize was given to this work).
'Un Telegramme et quatre rois', Les cahiers de science et vie, 41 (1997), 70-79
Robert Hooke (Asakura Pub., Tokyo, 1997, in Japanese)
(Commercial Publication of Ph. D. Thesis)
'A Categorization of Technology and the History of Japanese Technology'
Senri Ethnological Studies, 46 (1998), 29-44
'STS Towards the Twenty-first Century', Science, Technology and Society
(Sage Pub.), 4 (1999), 55-58
'Importance of Classic Books in Science', Gakujutsu Geppo
(A Journal of Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science)
53 (2000), 1176-1179 (in Japanese).
'Problems and Difficulties of the Preservations of Materials and of Research
Evaluation in History of Science and Technology'
Denshi Joho Tsuushin Gakkai-shi (A Journal of the Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers of Japan), 84 (2001), 599-601(in Japanese)
'A Historical Approach to Scientific Creativity'
Gijutsu To Keizai (A Monthly Journal for Engineering and Economy)
414 (2001), 42-45 (in Japanes)
'Astronomical Aspects of Robert Hookeﾕs Scientific Research'
Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science,
Volume 12, 161-166 (Brepols Pub, Turnhout, Belgium, 2001)
Science Studies at the Front (Keiso Pub., Tokyo, 2002,
in Japanese with Osamu Kanamori, in Japanese).
To Where Dose Japanese Science and Technology Head
(Iwanami Pub., Tokyo, 2006, in Japanese)
'Difference in East Asian STS: European Origin or American Origin?,
East Asian STS Journal (Springer), 1 (2007), 237-241*.