The Essays of Torahiko Terada 2
Introduction Torahiko Terada was a Japanese physicist and writer born in Tokyo Japan in 1878. He wrote many essays in his lifetime until he died in 1935 at the age of 57, and they have been widely read in Japan. When he was a high school student in Kumamoto (a city in Kyushu, southern Japan), he studied English and literature under Soseki Natsume (a renowned Japanese writer) and physics under Takuro Tamaru (a prominent Japanese physicist). These two men greatly influenced him and infused him with a lifelong passion for science and literature. As a physicist, he graduated from the Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Imperial University at the top of his class in 1903, received his PhD in science in 1908, and was appointed to an assistant professor. In 1909, he went to study abroad at the University of Berlin, visited various places in Europe, and returned to Japan via the United States in 1911. After that, he engaged himself in research in v