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Shosaku Numa
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Shosaku Numa was a Japanese biochemist, molecular biologist, neuroscientist, and biologist. Born in Wakayama in 1929, he was a citizen of Japan and the Empire of Japan. He received his education at Kyoto University and Harvard Medical School. Throughout his career, he was employed by Kyoto University.
Numa was a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He received the Otto Warburg Medal, the Heinrich Wieland Prize, and the title of Person of Cultural Merit. He spoke German and was recognized in the collections of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He authored the work *Fatty Acid Metabolism and Its Regulation*. Numa died in Kyoto on February 15, 1992.
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Vinony catalogs Shosaku Numa in its Fellows of the Royal Society collection (9,360 entries). It also appears in American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Vinony's link graph records 53 inbound references to Shosaku Numa, and connects out to Royal Society, Kyoto and Japanese people.
Vinony files it under 1929 births, 1992 deaths and Academic staff of Kyoto University.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Fatty Acid Metabolism and Its Regulation
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Empire of Japan
- Place of birth
- Wakayama
- Place of death
- Kyoto
- Occupation
- physician
- Educated at
- Harvard Medical School
- Employer
- Kyoto University
- Languages spoken
- German
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- date of death
- 1992-02-15
- date of birth
- 1929-02-07
- name in kana
- ぬま しょうさく
- name in native language
- 沼正作
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