Taketani Mitsuo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Taketani Mitsuo

physicist

Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1911

Place of Birth: Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 22-Apr-2000

Profession: physicist, philosopher

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Taketani Mitsuo (?? ??, October 2, 1911 – April 22, 2000) was a prominent Japanese physicist and Marxist.
He published his Doctrine of the Three Stages of Scientific Development in 1936.
This was the first Japanese contribution to the philosophy of science.
He was jailed in 1938 following making contributions to the Marxist journal Sekai Bunka (World Culture).
However, following the intervention of Yoshio Nishina, he was released into the custody of his professor, Yukawa Hideki.