Kenji ITO
Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
235 Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
Tel. 617-495-8759
E-mail: kenjiito@fas.harvard.edu
Education
Harvard University
Ph. D,, History of Science, (expected date of the completion of dissertation) June 2002
General Examination Fields: History of Physical Sciences
(Peter L. Galison),
History of Science in the 17th Century (Mario Biagioli), History of Modern
Japan (Andrew Gordon)
General Examination Date: June 1998
Dissertation Title: Making Sense of Ryôshiron (Quantum Theory): The Introduction of Quantum Physics into Japan
University of Tokyo
Sci. M., History of Science, March 1992
Master Thesis Title: Establishment of the Standard Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (in Japanese)
University of Tokyo
B. A., History of Science, March 1990
B. A. Thesis Title: Bohr-Einstein Debate (in Japanese)
Fellowships and Awards
Reischauer Institute Graduate Summer Research Travel Grant
Harvard University, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, June to August 2000
- German Language Training Grant.
Harvard University Center of European Studies. July to August 1998.
- Fulbright Grant for Graduate Studies.
Fulbright Commission. September 1996 to August 1998
Nihon Ikueikai. April 1991 to March 1993.
Teaching Experience
Guest Lecturer
Harvard University, History of Science Department. April 9, 2001
Course title: History of Science 97b
Lecture title: Relativity theory
and quantum mechanics
Teaching Fellow
Harvard University, History of Science Department. Spring 2001
Course title: History of Science 120/Physics 121
Teaching Fellow (Sophomore Tutorial)
Harvard University, History of Science Department. Spring 2001
Course title: History of Science 97b
Teaching Fellow (Sophomore Tutorial)
Harvard University, History of Science Department. Fall 2000
Course title: History of Science 97a
Teaching Fellow (Junior Tutorial Seminar)
Harvard University, History of Science Department. Spring 2000
Course title: History of Science 98r Junior Seminar "Interpreting Theories: Toward a Semantic Approach of the History of Science" by Kenji Ito
Head Teaching Fellow
Harvard University, Office of Core Education. Fall 1999
Course title: Science A-41 "The Einstein Revolution" by Professor Peter Galison
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Galison
Teaching Fellow
Harvard University, Office of Core Education. Spring 1999
Course title: Historical Studies A-18 "Science and Society in the 20th Century" by Professor Everett Mendelsohn
Supervisor: Professor Everett Mendelsohn
Graduate Writing Fellow
Harvard University, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Spring 1999
Program for teaching fellows to enhance the use of writing in teaching
Junior Tutor
Harvard University, History of Science Department. Fall, 1998
Supervised a student's writing a research paper
Teaching Fellow
Harvard University, Office of Core Education. Fall, 1998
Course title: Science A-41 "The Einstein Revolution" by Professor Peter Galison
Supervisor: Professor Peter Galison
Conference Papers (Including Future Talks)
"Student 'Radicals' in Science: Youth Culture and a Root of Quantum
Physics Research in Interwar Japan" History of Science Society Annual
Meeting, Denver, November 2001.
"Complementarity in the 'Far East': Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics and
Japanese Intellectuals around the 1930s" the XXIst International Congress of
History of Science, Mexico City, July 2001.
"Rebuilding House and Rebuilding Physics: Native and Foreign Values
Examined in Nishina Yoshio's School Building Activities" Physics Phunday
(Sixth Annual Harvard-MIT-Princeton Graduate Workshop in the History of the
Physical Sciences), Princeton University, April 2001.
"Complementarity in the 'Far East': Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics and
Japanese Intellectuals around the 1930s" Mephistos (Graduate Student
Conference for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science),
University of Notre Dame, March - April, 2001.
"Rebuilding House and Rebuilding Physics: Native and Foreign Values
Examined in Nishina Yoshio's School Building Activities" Harvard Graduate
Student Conference for Japanese Studies, Harvard University, March
2001.
"'Culture
of Calculating': Theory and Practice of Theoretical Physics in 1920s Japan"
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, November 2000.
"Two Meanings of Theoretical Physics in 1920s Japan" Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Science, University of Pittsburgh, September 2000.
"'Student Radicals' in Physics: Student Culture in the Taisho Era and Modern Physics in Japan" Japanese Society for the History of Science and Technology Meeting, University of Tokyo, August, 2000 (in Japanese).
"Theory and Practice of Theoretical Physics in 1920s Japan" Melyst (Meguro Lyceum of Science and Technology) Meeting, July 2001 (in Japanese).
"'Student Dissidents' in Physics: Student Culture in the Taisho Era and
Modern Physics in Japan" Harvard Graduate Student Conference for Japanese
Studies, Harvard University, March 2000.
"Complementarity and Japanese Intellectuals in the 1930s" Japanese
Society for the History of Science and Technology Meeting, University of
Tokyo, August 1999 (in Japanese).
"Making Sense of Ryoshiron (Quantum Theory): The Introduction of
Quantum Physics into Japan, 1920-1945" Physics Phunday (Fourth
Annual Harvard-MIT-Princeton Graduate Workshop in the History of the
Physical Sciences), Princeton University, May 1999.
"Complementarity in the 'Far East': Philosophy of Quantum Physics and
Japanese Intellectuals Around the 1930s" Physics Working Group, History of
Scence Department, Harvard University, January 1999.
" 'Transplanting Spirit': Introduction of Quantum Mechanics and Nishina
Yoshio's Role" Physics Phunday (Third Annual Harvard-MIT-Princeton Graduate
Workshop in the History of the Physical Sciences), Harvard University, May 1998.
Conferences and Sessions Organized
- "You Youth Are Terrible People . . .": Student Culture and the Moral Economies of Modern Physics" History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Denver, November 2001.
- "Redefining Physics: Science, Culture, and Politics in the 20th Century East Asia" History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, November 2000.
Publications
Kenji Ito,
"Graduate Program in the History of Science at Harvard University,"
Kagakusi Kenkyu, 2000, 27: 80-82 (in Japanese).
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Kenji Ito, and Yasu Furukawa, "Rudolf Clausius' Copy of Sadi Carnot's Reflexions: A New Look at Clausius' Access to Carnot's Work," Historia Scientiarum, 1996, 6: 31-36.
Kenji Ito, "Quantum Mechanics as a Philosophical Thought," in Chikara Sasaki et al., Thoughts on Exact Sciences, Iwanami Lectures of Modern Thoughts, vol. 11 (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1995), pp. 185-210 (in Japanese).
Togo Tsukahara, Mariko Shinoda, Kenji Ito, Noriaki Matsumura, Hironori Ayabe, Yasushi Kakihara, Eio Honma, Yosio Sugiyama, "A Review of the Scientific Activities of Philipp Franz von Siebold with Reference to the History of Science: A Study Concerning the Relationship between Siebold's Scientific Activities and the Fields of Colnial, Baconian and Humboldtian Science," Narutaki Kiyo, no. 6, 1996 (in Japanese).
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Kenji Ito, and Yasu Furuawa, "Rudolf Clausius' Copies of Sadi Carnot and J. R. Mayer's Books: Findings from the Charles Clarke Collection at Tokyo Denki University," Kagakusi Kenkyu, 1994, 33 : 221-225, (in Japanese).
Yasu Furukawa, Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, and Kenji Ito, "Rudolf Clausius' Copies of Sadi Carnot and J. R. Mayer's Books: Findings in the Charles L. Clarke Collection at Tokyo Denki University," Research Reports of the Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, 1994, no. 14 : 65-75, (in Japanese).
Kenji Ito, Review of Ryoshi Rikigaku no Keisei to Ronri by Mitsuo Taketani and Masayuki Nagasaki, Historia Scientiarum, 1994, 3: 235-243 (in English).
Language
- Japanese
Native
- German
ZDaF score 110/120 (1998)