Basic Information

Faculty

• Faculty of Letters

Email Address

• Email Address

  ito.kenji.6mkyoto-u.ac.jp

Professional Memberships

• From Jul. 2023, To Present

  京都哲学会
• To Jul. 2023

  Society for Social Studies of Science
• To Present

  科学社会学会
• To Present

  日本科学史学会
• To Present

  日本物理学会
• To Present

  Society for the History of Technology
• To Present

  History of Science Society

Academic Degree

• 05 Nov. 2002

  Ph. D.（Harvard University）
• 30 Mar. 1992

  東京大学修士（理学）

Academic Resume (Graduate Schools)

• 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科博士課程広域科学専攻, 単位修得退学

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• 東京大学, 教養学部教養学科第一（科学史及び科学哲学）, 卒業

Research History

• From Apr. 2025, To Present

  Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Professor
• From Oct. 2022, To Mar. 2025

  Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Associate Professor
• From Apr. 2010, To Sep. 2022

  SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), School of Advanced Sciences, Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, Associate Professor
• From Apr. 2007, To Mar. 2010

  SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama Center for Advanced Studies, Associate Professor
• From Dec. 2006, To Mar. 2007

  SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama Center for Advanced Studies, Associate Professor
• From Apr. 2006, To Nov. 2006

  The University of Tokyo, nterfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Project Assistant Professor
• From Apr. 2002, To Mar. 2006

  The University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and technology, Project Assistant Professor
• From Sep. 1996, To Nov. 2002

  Harvard University, 大学院生

Profile

• Profile

  Historian of science and researcher of science and technology studies specialized in science and technology in modern Japan, especially physics. Currently interested in history and social studies of big science in Japan, in particular high-energy physics. Also interested in game studies and recent technologies in Japan, in particular robotics.

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0002-7000-431X

• J-Global ID

  201101006070481795

• External link

  http://www.kenjiito.org/xoops_jp

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/xy2rbmib

Research

Research Interests

• 朝永振一郎
• 学術会議の歴史
• 仁科芳雄
• 学術雑誌の歴史
• 巨大科学
• ユーザー研究
• 現代史
• 資源共有化
• オーラルヒストリー
• アーカイブズ
• ユーザー論
• 産業用ロボット
• ゲーム研究
• STS
• 科学技術社会論
• 物理学史
• 科学史

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences, Sociology/history of science and technology

Papers

• Repairing a Scientific Network: The International Conference of Theoretical Physics in 1953 and the Rehabilitation of the Japanese Physics Community

  Kenji Ito

  Roberto Lalli and Jaume Navarro eds., Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Oxford University Press, 2024, Peer-reviewed, Invited

  
• Transnational scientific advising: occupied Japan, the United States National Academy of Sciences and the establishment of the Science Council of Japan

  Kenji Ito

  The British Journal for the History of Science, Jun. 2024, Peer-reviewed

  
• Early Japanese Reactions to the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, 1927-1943

  Ito, Kenji

  Olival Freire, Jr. ed., Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations, Oxford University Press, Apr. 2022, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• 地球的災害の知の物語：『日本沈没』における科学と社会

  伊藤憲二

  現代思想, Sep. 2021, Invited

  
• Modelling the apparent spread of science: Some insights from the history of science in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  David Ludwig, Inkeri Koskinen, Zinhle Mncube, Luana Poliseli, Luis Reyes-Galindo, eds., Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, Abingdon: Routledge, Jul. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• The material culture and politics of artifacts in nuclear diplomacy

  Maria Rentetzi; Kenji Ito

  Centaurus, 09 Jun. 2021, Peer-reviewed

  
• Three tons of uranium from the International Atomic Energy Agency: diplomacy over nuclear fuel for the Japan Research Reactor-3 at the Board of Governors’ meetings, 1958–1959

  Kenji Ito

  History and Technology, 02 Jun. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• The co-production of nuclear science and diplomacy: towards a transnational understanding of nuclear things

  Kenji Ito; Maria Rentetzi

  History and Technology, 26 Apr. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• The scientific object and material diplomacy: The shipment of radioisotopes from the United States to Japan in 1950

  Kenji Ito

  Centaurus, 12 Apr. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• The Genealogies of Academies and the Establishment of the Science Council of Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Journal of Japanese Scientists, Apr. 2021, Invited, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• Expert knowledge and Society: The "Third Wave" of Science Studies and Beyond

  Kenji Ito

  Miwao Matsumoto, ed., Sociology of Science, University of Tokyo Press, Feb. 2021, Invited, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• Takeuchi Tokio and Albert Einstein

  Kenji Ito

  Gendai shisō, Aug. 2019, Invited

  
• Takeuchi Tokio's "Artificial Radium": A Scientific Scandal in Early 1940s Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Kagakusi Kenkyu, Jan. 2019, Peer-reviewed

  
• "Electron Theory" and the Emergence of Atomic Physics in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Science in Context, Sep. 2018, Peer-reviewed, Invited

  
• Magnetrons and quantum electrodynamics: Engineering and physics in the case of tomonaga Sin-itiro

  Kenji Ito

  STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS, Nov. 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• Cultural Difference and Sameness: Historiographic Reflections on Histories of Modern Physics in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Evelyn Fox Keller and Karine Chemla, eds., Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge. Durham: Duke University Press, Apr. 2017, Peer-reviewed, Invited

  
• Quantum mechanical turn of physics in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Butsuri, Aug. 2016, Peer-reviewed, Invited

  
• The Question of Research in Prewar Japanese Physics

  Kenji Ito

  David G. Wittner and Philip C. Brown, Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia), London: Routledge, 2016, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author

  
• "Big Science" by a Newspaper Company: The Asahi Shimbun Company and Japan's Antarctic Expedition in the International Geophysical Year

  Ken Nagata; Kenji Ito

  Japanese Journal for Science, Technology & Society, 2016, Peer-reviewed

  
• La science <> sous la restauration Meiji. Mimétisme ou appropriation intelligente?

  Kenji Ito

  Kapil Raj and Otto Sibum, eds., Histoire des sciences et des savoirs : Tome 2, Modernité et globalisation. Paris: Seuil, Oct. 2015, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author

  
• The Material and the Immaterial in Research: Perspectives from the History of Science in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Shiso, Feb. 2015, Invited

  
• "Science and Society" Education for Ph.D candidates : the case of SOKENDAI(TOWARD INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT)

  SHINEHA Ryuma; et al.

  The journal of science policy and research management, Nov. 2014, Peer-reviewed, Invited

  
• Superposing Dynamos and Electrons: Electrical Engineering and Quantum Physics in the Case of Nishina Yoshio,

  Kenji Ito

  Shaul Katzir, Christoph Lehner and Jürgen Renn, eds., Traditions and Transformations in the History of Quantum Physics, Berlin: Edition Open Access (Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge Studies Series), 2013, Peer-reviewed, Invited

  
• Vor Astro Boy

  Kenji Ito

  Technikgeschichte, Dec. 2010, Peer-reviewed

  
• Robots, A-Bombs, and War: Cultural Meanings of Science and Technology in Japan around World War II

  Kenji Ito

  Robert Jacobs, ed., Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (AsiaWorld)) Lanham: Lexington Books, Mar. 2010, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author

  
• Beyond Digital Game Studies: Where do game studies go when games are more than games?

  Kenji Ito

  Journal of Digital Games Research, 2007, Invited, Lead author

  
• Possibilities of Non-Commercial Games: The Case of Amateur Role-Playing Games Designers in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Suzanne de Castell and Jeniffer Jenson eds., Worlds in Play: International Perspectives on Digital Games Research, New York: Peter Lang, 2007, Peer-reviewed

  
• The Geist in the Institute: Production of Quantum Theorists in Prewar Japan

  Kenji Ito

  David Kaiser, ed., Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005), 2005, Peer-reviewed, Invited

  
• Spreading the tools of theory: Feynman diagrams in the USA, Japan, and the Soviet Union

  D Kaiser; K Ito; K Hall

  SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, Dec. 2004, Peer-reviewed

  
• Gender and Physics in Early 20th Century Japan: Yuasa Toshiko's Case

  Kenji Ito

  Historia Scientiarum, 2004, Peer-reviewed

  
• 『エフ氏』と『アトム』―ロボットの表象から見た科学技術観の戦前と戦後

  伊藤 憲二

  年報 科学・技術・社会, 2003, Peer-reviewed

  
• Values of "pure science": Nishina Yoshio's wartime discourse between nationalism and physics, 1940-1945

  K Ito

  HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2002, Peer-reviewed

  
• Rudolf Clausius' Copy of Sadi Carnot's Reflexions: A New Look at Clausius' Access to Carnot's Work

  Yoshiyuki Kikuchi; Kenji Ito; Yasu Furukawa

  Historia Scientiarum, 1996, Peer-reviewed

  

Misc.

• 日本における量子力学の受容

  数理科学, 01 Jan. 2025, Invited

  
• Who Knows?

  Kenji Ito

  Journal for the History of Knowledge, Dec. 2024, Invited

  
• 仁科芳雄をめぐる旅（一）里庄浜中とその周辺（後編）

  伊藤憲二

  窮理, Sep. 2024, Invited

  
• オッペンハイマーと仁科芳雄

  伊藤憲二

  みすず, 01 Aug. 2024, Invited

  
• Knowledge Infrastructure and Biographies in the History of Science: In the Case of Reiki (Excitation): Nishina Yoshio and Modern Physics in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Philosophy and History of Science Studies, Sep. 2024

  
• 第二次世界大戦後の世界と新しい科学

  伊藤憲二

  みすず, 03 Jun. 2024, Invited

  
• 矛盾に満ちた実在／科学者としての オッペンハイマー

  伊藤憲二

  みすず, 01 May 2024, Invited

  
• カレン・バラッド著『宇宙の途上で出会う―量子物理学からみる物質と意味のもつれ』―社会と自然、主観と客観の二分法を乗り越える枠組み

  伊藤憲二

  週刊読書人, 12 Apr. 2024, Invited

  
• 仁科芳雄をめぐる旅（一）里庄浜中とその周辺（前編）

  伊藤憲二

  窮理, Apr. 2024, Invited

  
• 山本義隆『ボーアとアインシュタインに量子を読む : 量子物理学の原理をめぐって』(みすず書房,2022) (書評論文）

  伊藤憲二

  化学史研究, 2024, Invited

  
• <追悼エッセイ>伊藤和行さんの思い出

  伊藤憲二

  科学哲学科学史研究, 31 Mar. 2023

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• 解説

  伊藤憲二

  アレックス・シザール（柴田和宏訳）『科学ジャーナルの成立』名古屋大学出版会, Mar. 2024, Invited

  
• 占領下のサイクロトロン破壊を見直す：仁科芳雄と大型原子核実験装置の世界史的文脈

  伊藤憲二

  みすず, Jun. 2023, Invited

  
• 一世紀前の日本の物理学とアインシュタインの来日（二）

  伊藤憲二

  窮理, May 2023, Invited

  
• 一世紀前の日本の物理学とアインシュタイン来日（一）

  伊藤憲二

  窮理, Oct. 2022, Invited

  
• 学術雑誌

  伊藤憲二

  情報の科学と技術, Jan. 2023, Invited

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• 予期せざる結果としての初期学術会議

  伊藤憲二

  年報 科学・技術・社会, Jun. 2022, Invited, Lead author

  
• 仁科芳雄と日独青年物理学者たち（五）：湯川秀樹の渡欧（後編）」

  伊藤憲二

  窮理, Apr. 2022

  
• Beyond “Plato to NATO”: Navigating the Global Turn in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

  Jérôme Baudry; Yi-Tang Lin; Lisa Hellman; Kenji Ito; Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva; Helen Tilley

  Monde(s), 2022, Invited

  
• 仁科芳雄と日独青年物理学者たち（五）：湯川秀樹の渡欧（前編）

  伊藤憲二

  窮理, Dec. 2021, Invited, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• 仁科芳雄と日独青年物理学者たち（四）：渡邊慧と寺田物理学（後編）

  伊藤憲二

  窮理, Aug. 2021, Invited

  
• 仁科芳雄と日独青年物理学者たち（四）：渡邊慧と寺田物理学（前編）

  伊藤憲二

  窮理, Apr. 2021, Invited, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• 仁科芳雄と日独青年物理学者たち（三）：K・ビルスと戦前日本の外国人研究者（後編）

  伊藤憲二

  窮理, Dec. 2020, Invited, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• 学術会議の問題、安易な「民営化」が解決策にならないと言える理由：専門知と民主制はどうあるべきか

  伊藤憲二

  現代ビジネス, Oct. 2020, Invited, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• 仁科芳雄と日独青年物理学者たち（三）：K・ビルスと戦前日本の外国人研究者（前編）

  伊藤憲二

  窮理, Aug. 2020, Invited, Lead author

  
• 仁科芳雄と日独青年物理学者たち（ニ）：W・クロルと台湾

  伊藤憲二

  窮理, Apr. 2020, Invited, Lead author

  
• 物理学者とは何をする人か？：学界の要職を歴任した著者による研究の舞台裏を明かす回想録

  伊藤憲二

  図書新聞, 01 Feb. 2020, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• Historical Studies of Scientific Journals: Review Systems, Learned Societies, and Other Themes

  Kenji Ito

  Kagakusi Kenkyu, Jan. 2020, Lead author

  
• 仁科芳雄と日独青年物理学者たち（一）：朝永振一郎と親方の温情

  伊藤 憲二

  窮理, Dec. 2019, Invited, Lead author

  
• 菊池泰二と真空管（三）：ダイナトロンとプライオトロン

  伊藤 憲二

  窮理, Aug. 2019, Invited

  
• 菊池泰二と真空管（二）：真空管と物理学

  伊藤 憲二

  窮理, Apr. 2019, Invited

  
• 菊池泰二と真空管（一）：若き物理学者の死

  伊藤 憲二

  窮理, Nov. 2018, Invited

  
• 水野敏之丞と『電子論』（三）:電子論と「富国強兵」

  伊藤 憲二

  窮理, Jul. 2018

  
• 水野敏之丞と『電子論』（二）:電気学と電子論

  伊藤 憲二

  窮理, Mar. 2018

  
• 水野敏之丞と『電子論』（一）:著者と文体

  伊藤 憲二

  Nov. 2017

  
• 愛知敬一と『電子の自叙伝』（三）:エーテルと電子

  伊藤 憲二

  窮理, Jul. 2017

  
• 愛知敬一と『電子の自叙伝』（二）:チャールズ・ギブソンのこと

  伊藤 憲二

  窮理, Mar. 2017

  
• 愛知敬一と『電子の自叙伝』（一）：吾輩は電子である

  伊藤 憲二

  窮理, Dec. 2016

  
• 『論文』の無い科学者・桑木彧雄（三）：物理学・哲学・科学史

  伊藤 憲二

  窮理, Feb. 2016

  
• 『論文』の無い科学者・桑木彧雄（二）：ヨーロッパ留学と相対論

  伊藤 憲二

  窮理, Oct. 2015

  
• 『論文』の無い科学者・桑木彧雄（一）：初期の業績と物理学史的背景

  伊藤 憲二

  窮理, Jul. 2015

  
• Social bases and social impacts of the history of science in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Journal of History of Science, Japan, Apr. 2014, Invited

  
• Isis特集：「科学史の未来」第４１巻(2014): 94-96

  森脇江介; 住田朋久; 橋本雄太; 伊藤憲二; 坂本邦暢; 藤本大士

  化学史研究, 2014

  
• The Legacy of Hideki Yukawa, Sin-itiro Tomonaga, and Shoichi Sakata: Some Aspects from their Archives

  Michiji Konuma; Masako Bando; Haruyoshi Gotoh; Hisao Hayakawa; Kohji Hirata; Kazuyuki Ito; Kenji Ito; Kazuyuki Kanaya; Daisuke Konagaya; Taichiro Kugo; Chusei Namba; Tadashi Nishitani; Yoshinobu Takaiwa; Masaharu Tanabashi; Kio Tanaka; Sho Tanaka; Fumihiko Ukegawa; Tadashi Yoshikawa

  arXiv, 29 Aug. 2013

  
• 

  特集「科学、歴史、そして近代インド」Isis 104 (2013): 330-380

  坂本邦暢; 伊藤 憲二; 吉田善哉; 藤本大士

  化学史研究, 2013

  
• What can a historian of science do about the question of "how to change the failed trajectory of national policy" ?

  伊藤 憲二

  年報 科学・技術・社会, 2013, Invited

  
• Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and early social studies of science in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  East Asian Science, Technology and Society, Nov. 2012, Invited

  
• Christopher Bolton, Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kōbō (Review)

  Kenji Ito

  HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES, Dec. 2011, Invited

  
• 書評・科学社会学の日本的新展開は可能か？―松本三和夫『テクノサイエンス・リスクと社会学』

  伊藤 憲二

  思想, 2011, Invited

  
• 「化物の進化」雑感

  伊藤 憲二

  寺田寅彦全集月報, Nov. 2010, Invited

  
• [先端科学 総研大の現場から]国立大の交付金減少を懸念-日本の高等教育は不足

  伊藤 憲二; ITO Kenji; イトウ ケンジ

  神奈川新聞, 2010

  
• Laura Hein, Reasonable Men Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan (review)

  Kenji Ito

  East Asian Science, Technology, and Society, 2008, Invited, Lead author

  
• Dong-Won Kim, Yoshio Nishina: Father of Modern Physics in Japan (review)

  Kenji Ito

  Physics Today, 2008, Invited, Lead author

  
• ロボットの科学論のために－その展望と可能性

  伊藤 憲二

  哲学・科学史論叢, 2003

  
• Making Sense of Ryôshiron (Quantum Theory): The Introduction of Quantum Mechanics into Japan, 1920-1940

  Kenji Ito

  PhD diss., Harvard University, 2002, Peer-reviewed

  
• ハーバード大学における科学史の大学院プログラム

  伊藤 憲二

  化学史研究, 2000, Invited

  
• 31a-E-5 Niels Bohr's Visit to Japan and Its Influence on the Japanese Physics

  Ito Kenji

  Abstracts of the meeting of the Physical Society of Japan. Annual meeting, 15 Mar. 1996

  
• 科学史の側面から再検討したフィリップ・フランツ・フォン・シーボルトの科学的活動―植民地科学、ベーコニアン科学、フンボルティアン科学とシーボルトの科学的活動との関係についての試論

  塚原東吾; 篠田真理子; 伊藤憲二; 松村紀明; 綾部広則; 柿原泰; 本間栄男; 杉山滋郎

  シーボルト記念館 鳴滝紀要, 1996

  
• Clausius旧蔵の物理学書についての考察―東京電機大学クラーク・コレクションにおける発見資料

  古川安; 菊池好行; 伊藤憲二

  東京電機大学工学部研究報告, 1994

  
• 東京電機大学クラーク・コレクションにおけるClausius関連新資料について

  菊池好行; 古川安; 伊藤憲二

  科学史研究, 1994, Peer-reviewed

  

Presentations

• Nishina Yoshio and Japanese Physicists’ Early Reactions to the Nuclear Weapons

  Kenji Ito

  88. Annual Conference of the DPG and DPG Spring Meeting, 10 Mar. 2025, Invited

  
• 仁科芳雄研究室の女性研究従事者：周縁から越境へ

  伊藤憲二

  古川科研2024年度ワークショップ 「⽇本における⼥性科学者の誕⽣」, 18 Jan. 2025

  
• 話題提供コメント

  伊藤憲二

  第3回メタサイエンス勉強会, 11 Dec. 2024, メタサイエンス研究会, Invited

  
• 科学における「革命」とは何か？：量子力学史における1925年問題

  伊藤憲二

  第２８回科学史西日本研究大会, 07 Dec. 2024

  
• 仁科芳雄と日本における量子物理学研究

  伊藤憲二

  第70回 仁科記念講演会 仁科芳雄と素粒子物理学の百年, 05 Dec. 2024, Invited

  
• 核兵器出現後の世界と日米核物理学者たち：仁科芳雄とJ・ロバート・オッペンハイマーを中心に

  伊藤憲二

  科学技術社会論学会第23回年次研究大会・東京大学実行委員会記念シンポジウム 「懸念への力学～安全保障と研究者～」, 30 Nov. 2024, Invited

  
• 「『数学物理学会記事』の予備的研究と中間報告」

  伊藤憲二

  学術雑誌の歴史研究会, 27 Oct. 2024

  
• Should 2025 Really Be the Quantum Year? A Global History Perspective

  Kenji Ito

  Symposium on the History of Modern Physics, IHNS-CAS Beijing, 23 Sep. 2024, Invited

  
• 科学史における伝記とは何か：『励起：仁科芳雄と日本の現代物理学』の理論的背景と展望

  伊藤憲二

  火曜日ゼミ（東京工業大学）, 30 Jan. 2024, Invited

  
• Extrapolating Objectivity: Epistemic Virtues and Contact Zones

  Kenji Ito

  The Integrative Potential of Epistemic Virtues for the Digital Humanities at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo, 26 Jan. 2023, Invited

  
• A Brief History of Japan’s Scientific Advising, or How It Does Not Work So Well

  Kenji Ito

  AAAS Annual Meeting (Online), 20 Feb. 2022, Invited

  
• 学術雑誌の変遷をどう考えるか―『東京数学物理学会記事』とその継続後誌を例として

  伊藤憲二

  日本科学史学会年会（オンデマンド発表）, May 2024

  
• Nishida Kitarō, Quantum Physics, and Objectivity

  KENJI ITO

  PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSICS BETWEEN EUROPE AND JAPAN, 1922-1953, 03 Oct. 2023, Invited

  
• 仁科芳雄と瀬戸内海：科学史と郷土史の接点を目指して

  伊藤憲二

  日本科学史学会西日本大会, 09 Dec. 2023

  
• 里庄と仁科芳雄―故郷の環境はどのように未来の原子物理学者を創ったか

  伊藤憲二

  仁科芳雄博士生誕日記念 科学講演会, 08 Dec. 2023, 科学振興仁科財団, Invited

  
• 仁科芳雄とその弟子たち

  伊藤憲二

  京都大学エグゼクティブ・リーダーシップ・プログラム, 11 Nov. 2023, Invited

  
• UNESCO Cooperative Associations and Science Diplomacy in the Occupied Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Science Popularization as Cultural Diplomacy: UNESCO (1946-1958), 14 Dec. 2021

  
• The International Conference of Theoretical Physics in 1953 and the Rehabilitation of the Japanese Physics Community

  Kenji Ito

  IUPAP History Project Preliminary Workshop, 10 Dec. 2021

  
• 仁科芳雄と戦時核研究：マンハッタン計画史観を超えて

  伊藤憲二

  科学史学校（日本科学史学会）, 23 Oct. 2021, Invited

  
• 予期せざる結果としての初期日本学術会議

  伊藤憲二

  科学社会学会年次大会, 20 Sep. 2021, Invited

  
• Commentary on the papers by Véronique Stengers and Loukas Freris

  Kenji Ito

  Negotiating Radiation Protection (6th Meeting), 23 Apr. 2021, Invited

  
• Transnational Scientific Advising: The Occupied Japan, the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the Establishment of the Science Council of Japan.

  Kenji Ito

  Asia in History of Science Diplomacy (3rd Meeting), 12 Mar. 2021, Invited

  
• A global history of dread: How historians (try to ) frame and explain the hazards in our lives

  Kenji Ito; Yeonsil Kang; Scott Knowles; Amy Slaton

  A panel discussion at Drexel University, 06 Nov. 2019, Invited

  
• Developments of Nuclear Physics in Japan: Why in Japan and Why Nuclear Physics?

  Kenji Ito

  Lecture at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, 29 Oct. 2019, Invited

  
• Developments of Nuclear Physics in Japan: Why in Japan and Why Nuclear Physics?

  Kenji Ito

  Lecture at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, 28 Oct. 2019, Invited

  
• Albert Einstein and the Emergence of the "Scientist" in Early 20th-Century Japanese Physics: The Work, Careers, and Professional Identities of Kuwaki Ayao, Ishiwara Jun, and Takeuchi Tokio

  Kenji Ito

  Lecture at the University of Manchester, 01 Oct. 2019, Invited

  
• A Two-Sided Study of Diplomacy over Nuclear Materials: The Shipment of Radioisotopes from the United States to Japan in 1950

  Kenji Ito

  1st Conference of the International Academy of History of Science, Athens, 14 Sep. 2019

  
• When did Japanese physicists become 'scientists'? Their transition from gakusha to kagakusha and Takeuchi Tokio's artificial radium in the early 1940s

  Kenji Ito

  Joint East Asian Conference, University of Edinburgh, 05 Sep. 2019

  
• Physicists versus Locals in Tanashi: The Dispute over the Establishment of the Institute for Nuclear Study

  Kenji Ito

  International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Chonbuk National University , Jeonju, 20 Aug. 2019

  
• Nishina Yoshio as a Biologist

  Kenji Ito

  The History of Science Society of Japan Annual Meeting, 26 May 2019

  
• When Did Japanese Physicists Become "Scientists"?: The Primacy of Research and Takeuchi Tokio's Artificial Radium Scandal in the Early 1940s

  Kenji Ito

  The Japanese Scientists: The Birth of the Kagakusha, 30 Mar. 2019

  
• Three Tons of Uranium from the IAEA: Diplomacy, Safeguards, and the Japan Research Reactor-3 in the late 1950s

  Kenji Ito

  Nuclear Diplomacies: Their Past, Present, and Future, 10 Nov. 2018

  
• Nishina Yoshio as a Biologist: One Origin of Nuclear Biomedical Research in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Radiation Diplomacy: The History and the Present, 03 Nov. 2018

  
• Nishina Yoshio and the U. S. Export of Radioisotopes to Occupied Japan

  Kenji Ito

  22nd Annual Asian Studies Conference Japan, 01 Jul. 2018

  
• Social Conditions for Prewar Japanese Research in Nuclear Physics Revisited

  Kenji Ito

  1st UST-SOKENDAI STS Workshop, 21 Jun. 2018

  
• Studies of Scientific Journals in the History of Science: Review System and Learned Societies

  Kenji Ito

  Japan Association for Philosophy of Science, 17 Jun. 2018

  
• Social Conditions for Prewar Japanese Research in Nuclear Physics Revisited

  Kenji Ito

  Japan Society for History of Science Annual Meeting, 26 May 2018

  
• Fostering “Reflexive Researchers”STS Education for Graduate Students at SOKENDAI

  Kenji Ito

  18 Aug. 2017, University of Science and Technology, Invited

  
• How does knowledge travel? Theoretical considerations and two case studies in the history physics in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  International Congress of History of Science and Technology, 28 Jul. 2017

  
• JRR-3 and Safeguards: An Analysis of the IAEA Board of Governors Official Records.

  Kenji Ito

  Japan Society for the History of Science the 64th Annual Meeting, 04 Jun. 2017

  
• The US export of radioisotopes to the occupied Japan

  Kenji Ito

  HKIHSS-SOKENDAI Symposium “The Past, Present, and Future of Radiation and Everyday Technology in Japan and US in the 20th and 21st Centuries”, 21 Feb. 2017, Hong Kong University and SOKENDAI

  
• "Electron theory" in Japan, or how electrical engineering prepared atomic physics there

  Kenji Ito

  Interactions of Interwar Physics: Technology, Instruments, and Other Sciences, 10 Dec. 2016, Invited

  
• The Rise of Theoretical Physics in Japan: Transmission of Scientific Cultures and Practices of Quantum Mechanics

  Kenji Ito

  Uppsala University, 27 Sep. 2016, Invited

  
• Self-Orientalism and Politics of Cultural Identities in the History of Japanese Science

  Kenji Ito

  European Society for the History of Science meeting, 24 Sep. 2016

  
• （コメント）

  伊藤 憲二

  学際教育の原理：メタ科学の学際化へ向けて, 05 Mar. 2016, Invited

  
• Yukawa Hideki and Self-Orientalism

  Kenji Ito

  History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 22 Nov. 2015, History of Science Society

  
• Electron Theory and Electrical Engineering in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Interactions of Interwar Physics: Technology, Instruments and Other Sciences, 11 Oct. 2015, Invited

  
• Science and Cultural Diversity: The Problem of Orientalism

  Kenji Ito

  15th Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (CLMPS), 04 Aug. 2015

  
• Magnetrons and QED: Engineering and Physics in Tomonaga Sin-itiro

  Kenji Ito

  Fourth Conference on History of Quantum Physics, 18 Jul. 2015

  
• Self-Orientalism and Problems of Culture in the History of Science

  Kenji Ito

  Questioning the Concepts of Culture, Diversity and Comparison in the History and Philosophy of Science, 11 Jul. 2015

  
• Defeat and Knowledge Transmission: Nuclear Research in Japan during the Occupation

  Kenji Ito

  The 14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, 07 Jul. 2015

  
• 仁科芳雄と戦後日本のラジオアイソトープの輸入

  伊藤 憲二

  日本科学史学会年総会, 31 May 2015

  
• Mathematical Physics and Cultural Practices in Japan: The Question of Cultural Explanations.

  Kenji Ito

  Cultures of Mathematics IV, 22 Mar. 2015, Invited

  
• “Science and Society” education for graduate students in natural sciences: A case at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan

  Kaori Iida; Ryuma Shineha; Hisashi Nakao; Yoshiyuki Kikuchi; Kenji Ito; Kohji Hirata; Mariko Hasegawa

  The 2nd IHPST, 04 Dec. 2014

  
• "Science and Society" Program at SOKENDAI: Comparison with Overseas Cases

  Ryuma SHINEHA; Kaori IIDA; Hisashi NAKAO; Yoshiyuki KIKUCHI; Koichi MIKAMI; Kenji ITO; Kohji HIRATA; Mariko HASEGAWA

  kenjiito, 15 Nov. 2014

  
• The Dispute over the Establishment of the Institute for Nuclear Study and Socio-Cultural Meanings of Nuclear Physics in Cold War Japan

  Kenji Ito

  History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 08 Nov. 2014

  
• Disaster, Risk, and Technocracy in Japanese Popular Culture: An Analysis of Five Versions of 'Japan Sinks'

  Kenji Ito

  Catastrophes, Digital Public Spheres and the Future of Democracy, 12 Sep. 2014, Invited

  
• Teaching STS to Science Students in Japan: Challenges and Possibilities

  Kenji Ito

  Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, 22 Aug. 2014

  
• Fostering “Reflexive Scientists”: STS Education for Science Graduate Students at Sokendai

  Kenji Ito

  kenjiito, 20 Aug. 2014, Invited

  
• Writing the history of science in Japan in the age of globalization: Plurality and social bases of knowledge and its history

  Kenji Ito

  An International Workshop on "the Neuro-Turn and Us: History of Science and Medicine in the Age of Biomedicine", 22 Jun. 2014, Invited

  
• "Science and Society" Education at Sokendai

  Kaori Iida; Kenji Ito; Yoshiyuki Kikuchi; Ryuma Shineha; Hisashi Nakao; Koji Hirata; Mariko Hasegawa

  Japan Society for History of Science Annual Meeting, 25 May 2014

  
• "Science and Society" Education Programs

  Ryuma Shineha; Kaori Iida; Kenji Ito; Yoshiyuki Kikuchi; Hisashi Nakao; Koji Hirata; Mariko Hasegawa

  Japan Society for History of Science Annual Meeting, 25 May 2014

  
• Scientists and Locals: The Site Fight over the Institute for Nuclear Study in Tanashi

  Kenji Ito

  Japan Society for History of Science Annual Meeting, 25 May 2014

  
• The Institute for Nuclear Study and its Neighborhood

  Kenji Ito

  “Science and Society” Workshop (No. 1) in Hayama. May 3 and 4, 2014 Observational and Experimental Objects: Science Studies of Materials and Instruments in the Laboratory and the Field, 04 May 2014

  
• Defeat and Knowledge Transmission: Nuclear Research in Japan during the Occupation,

  Kenji Ito

  International Conference on the Global STS, Nanyan Technological University, 14 Mar. 2014

  
• Neighbors of Accelerators: Japanese Nuclear Physicists and Local Opposition to the Institute of Nuclear Study, 1952-1955

  Kenji Ito

  SOKENDAI-Singapore Workshop, 06 Jan. 2014

  
• Science "Made in Japan?": Cultural Diversity and Transnationality in Post-WWII Japanese Nuclear Research

  Kenji Ito

  International Congress of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, 23 Jul. 2013

  
• Role of Yukawa, Tomonaga, and Sakata in the Formation of the Nuclear and Particle Physics Community in Japan and their Social Activities

  M Bando; H. Gotoh; H. Hayakawa; K. Hirata; Kazuyuki Ito; Kenji Ito; K. Kanaya; D. Konagaya; M. Konuma; T. Kugo; C. Namba; T. Nishitani; Y. Takaiwa; M. Tanabashi; K. Tanaka; S. Tanaka; F. Ukegawa; T. Yoshikawa

  The 12th Asia Pacific Physics Conference, 15 Jul. 2013

  
• On David Kaiser, How the Hippies Saved Physics

  Kenji Ito

  KEK-IMS Joint Workshop, 17 Feb. 2013, Invited

  
• Toshiko Yuasa , Exclusion of Women Scientists in Mid-20th Century Japan, and, Moral Conundrums

  Kenji Ito

  Japan France Frontier of Science Symposium, 27 Jan. 2013, Invited

  
• From the viewpoint of a historian of science

  Kenji Ito

  Japan Society for Sociology of Science Inaugural Meeting, 01 Dec. 2012, Invited

  
• 国策の失敗軌道をどう転換するか 科学史家の立場から（？）

  伊藤 憲二

  日本科学社会学会, 01 Dec. 2012, Invited

  
• Expertise and Interests in Atomic Physics in 1950s Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Japan Society for Science, Technology and Society, 17 Nov. 2012

  
• Japanese STS seen by an outsider

  Kenji Ito

  Japan Society for Science, Technology and Society, 16 Nov. 2012, Invited

  
• "Samurai science" revisited: Modern science in Japan and its cultural origins

  Kenji Ito

  5th European Society for the History of Science Meeting, 02 Nov. 2012

  
• What can a nuclear disaster prove about nuclear energy?: Nuclear scientists and robustness of nuclear discourse in post 3.11 Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Society for Social Studies of Science, 20 Oct. 2012

  
• Reconstruction of Physics in Postwar Japan and US-Japan Scientific Exchange

  Kenji Ito

  History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 05 Nov. 2011

  
• Twittering a Nuclear Disaster: Circulation of Technoscientific Knowledge and Politics of Expertise in Emergency

  Kenji Ito

  Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, 03 Nov. 2011

  
• Building a research tradition in Japanese physics

  Kenji Ito

  Science, Technology, and Medicine in East Asia: Policy, Practice, and Implications in a Global Perspective, 09 Oct. 2011

  
• 東日本大震災・福島原発事故: 科学史・科学技術社会論をめぐるメタな問題提起の試み

  伊藤 憲二

  科学・技術と社会の会シンポジウム「東日本大震災・福島第一原発事故の投げかける問題にどう向き合うか」, Sep. 2011, Invited

  
• General Education at Harvard College: Teaching through Discussion Sections

  Kenji Ito

  Aichi University of Education, Aug. 2011, Invited

  
• Cultural Hybridge and Transmission of Knowledge: The Case of the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics in japan, 1925-1940

  Kenji Ito

  4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Nov. 2010

  
• Nuclear Imagery and Cultural Meanings of the Atomic Bomb in the Occupied Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Aug. 2010

  
• From Electrical Engineering to Quantum Physics: The Case of Nishina Yoshio

  Kenji Ito

  HQ-3 Conference on the History of Quantum Physics, 01 Jul. 2010

  
• Large Telescopes and the Mountain: Politics of Place, Expertise, and Local Knowledge in the Case of the Subaru Telescope

  Kenji Ito

  Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, 30 Oct. 2009

  
• Price of Transdisciplinarity: Politics, Academia, and Introduction of STS into Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Oct. 2009

  
• Community Building and Transmission of Knowledge: The Case of Quantum Physics in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  XXIIIth International Congress for the History of Science, 29 Jul. 2009

  
• Before Astroboy: Robot Discourse, Nuke Talks, and Cultural Meanings of Science and Technology in mid-20th Century Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Wissenschaftlichen Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte,, 23 May 2009

  
• Pedagogical Structure and Failure of Knowledge Transmission: Marginalization of the History of Science in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 08 Nov. 2008

  
• Local cultures and production of scientific knowledge: Cases from the history of physics in Japan

  Kenji Ito

  Cultures and Styles of Scientific Practice Fondation des Treilles, Jun. 2008, Invited

  
• Oral History in STS

  Kenji Ito

  日本オーラル・ヒストリー学会第５回大会, 15 Sep. 2007

  
• Astroboy's Birthday: Robotics and Culture in Contemporary Japanese Society

  Kenji Ito

  East Asian Science, Technology, and Society, Aug. 2007, Invited

  
• Talking about Culture is Crude: Physics and Politics of ‘Nuclear’ in Postwar Japan

  Kenji Ito

  The Cultural Alchemy of the Exact Sciences: Revisiting the Forman Thesis, Mar. 2007, Invited

  
• Student 'Radicals' in Science: Youth Culture and a Root of Quantum Physics Research in Interwar Japan

  Kenji Ito

  History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Nov. 2001

  
• Complementarity in the 'Far East': Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics and Japanese Intellectuals around the 1930s

  Kenji Ito

  XXIst International Congress of History of Science, Jul. 2001

  
• "Culture of Calculating": Theory and Practice of Theoretical Physics in the 1920s Japan

  Kenji Ito

  History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 2000

  

Books and Other Publications

• 励起 : 仁科芳雄と日本の現代物理学 下巻

  伊藤, 憲二, Single work

  みすず書房, Jul. 2023

  Find Kyoto University's collection of books :

  
• 励起 : 仁科芳雄と日本の現代物理学 上巻

  伊藤, 憲二, Single work

  みすず書房, Jul. 2023

  Find Kyoto University's collection of books :

  
• 智場 #108 ゲーム・デヴォリューション

  遠藤 雅伸; 久保 雅一; 新 清士; 川端 裕人; 井上 明人; 伊藤 憲二; 土居 純; 三淵 啓自; 鈴木 健; 森田 沙保里; 山根 信二; 松山 遥; 公文 俊平

  国際大学グローバル・コミュニケーション・センター, 20 Dec. 2006, Not refereed

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• 不確定性 : ハイゼンベルクの科学と生涯

  Cassidy, David Charles; 伊藤, 憲二, Joint translation, デヴィッド・C. キャシディ

  白揚社, 1998, Not refereed

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• Philosopy of Exact Sciences

  SASAKi Chikara, Contributor, Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics

  Iwanami Shoten, 1995, Not refereed

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Awards

• 24 Jul. 2005

  2005 DHS Prize for Young Scholars
• 30 May 1990

  第十四回日本科学史学会論文賞

Media Coverage

• ［歩く 聞く 考える］ 特別論説委員 岩崎誠 仁科芳雄と戦時研究

  中国新聞社, 中国新聞（広島平和メディアセンター）, 朝刊, 01 Aug. 2024, Paper

  
• 『励起―仁科芳雄と日本の現代物理学（上・下）』

  科学技術社会論学会, 日本科学技術社会論学会ウェブサイト, 17 Jun. 2024, Internet

  
• 青木薫のサイエンス通信 『励起 仁科芳雄と日本の現代物理学』を読む

  HONZ, 22 Jan. 2024, Internet

  
• 唯一無二の本格的評伝―日本の「現代」物理学史をどう理解するか

  週刊読書人, 3頁, 19 Jan. 2024, Paper

  
• 読書委員が選ぶ2023年の3冊＜下＞

  読売新聞社, 読売新聞（ウェブ版）, 29 Dec. 2023, Internet

  
• この三冊

  毎日新聞社, 毎日新聞, 16 Dec. 2023, Paper

  
• 科学をメタに捉える

  日経新聞社, 日経サイエンス, 107―108頁, Dec. 2023, Paper

  
• 仁科芳雄 博士の新しい伝記「励起 仁科芳雄と日本の #現代物理学 」をご紹介！ #仁科会館 田主裕一朗さん

  「エフエムゆめウェーブ, 28 Nov. 2023, Media report

  
• 著者に会いたい 伊藤憲二「励起 仁科芳雄と日本の現代物理学」インタビュー 自由が協力・競争の起点

  朝日新聞社, 朝日新聞, 25頁, 11 Nov. 2023, Paper

  
• 科学者の記憶を記録・保存・活用するには

  東京化学同人, 現代化学, 28―29頁, Nov. 2023, Paper

  
• 伊藤憲二『励起 仁科芳雄と日本の現代物理学』

  連想読書日記, 22 Oct. 2023

  
• 「話題の本」「『励起 仁科芳雄と日本の現代物理学（上・下）』 伊藤憲二著 みすず書房 （上）5940円・（下）6600円

  毎日新聞出版, 週刊エコノミスト, 03 Oct. 2023, Paper

  
• 新刊

  日刊工業新聞社, 日刊工業新聞, 02 Oct. 2023, Paper

  
• 読書メモ：『励起（上・下）』（伊藤憲二 著）――今読まれるべき1000ページの「科学史的伝記」

  『重ね描き日記, 20 Sep. 2023, Internet

  
• 先人の「科学遺産」、みんなのお金で残す文化を

  日経新聞社, 日経新聞, 17 Sep. 2023, Paper

  
• 「質量ともに伝記決定版【いかさミュージアム散歩】仁科会館」

  中国新聞社, 中国新聞デジタル, 16 Sep. 2023, Internet

  
• （短評）『励起（上・下）』伊藤憲二著

  日経新聞社, 日経新聞, 09 Sep. 2023, Paper

  
• 「「原爆開発」科学者の苦悩」

  中国新聞社, 中国新聞, 18 Aug. 2023, Paper

  
• ［書評］『励起 仁科芳雄と日本の現代物理学』 上・下

  読売新聞社, 読売新聞, 06 Aug. 2023, Paper

  
• 哲学の劇場」#162 注目の新刊

  YouTube, 03 Aug. 2023, Internet

  
• 日本の原爆開発〜未公開書簡が明かす仁科芳雄の軌跡〜

  NHK, ETV特集, 取材協力およびインタビュー登場, 07 Aug. 2021, Media report

  
• 専門知と民主主義、バランスは： 学術会議の論点、識者に聞く

  朝日新聞社, 朝日新聞, 21面, 30 Apr. 2021, Paper

  
• 専門知と民主主義、バランスは 学術会議の論点、識者に聞く

  朝日新聞社, 朝日新聞デジタル, https://www.asahi.com/articles/DA3S14889362.html, 30 Apr. 2021, Internet

  
• 学術会議 欧州発症のアカデミー 独立性揺らいだ歴史 他国でも

  中国新聞社, 中国新聞, 3頁, 01 Nov. 2020, Paper

  
• NHKニュース

  NHK, NHKニュース, 14 Oct. 2020, Media report

  
• 【日本学術会議】これまでの意見表明は？

  NHK, NHKオンライン, オンライン（期間限定）, 14 Oct. 2020, Internet

  
• 科学者の社会発信に評価を

  朝日新聞社, 朝日新聞デジタル, https://www.asahi.com/articles/DA3S14162414.html?jumpUrl=http%253A%252F%252Fdigital.asahi.com%252Farticles%252FDA3S14162414.html%253F_requesturl%253Darticles%252FDA3S14162414.html, 03 Sep. 2019, Paper

  
• 論壇委員が選ぶ今月の３点

  朝日新聞社, 朝日新聞, https://www.asahi.com/articles/DA3S14156449.html, 29 Aug. 2019, Paper

  

External funds: Kakenhi

• Historical and sociological studies of the development of scientific journals as knowledge infrastructure

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

  Basic Section 01080:Sociology of science, history of science and technology-related

  Kyoto University

  伊藤 憲二

  From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2027, Granted

  学術雑誌;科学史;日本数学物理学会誌;東京物理学校雑誌;東洋学芸雑誌

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K00271/
• A Systematic Study on the Birth of Female Scientists in Japan

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

  Basic Section 01080:Sociology of science, history of science and technology-related

  The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

  古川 安

  From 01 Apr. 2020, To 31 Mar. 2024, Granted

  女性科学者;ジェンダーと科学;女性教育史;研究制度史;科学者;女子高等師範学校;女子専門学校;理化学研究所;女子教育史;津田塾大学;東京女子高等師範学校;奈良女子高等師範学校;日本女子大学校

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-20K00267/
• Establishment of high energy physics in Japan and its socio-cultural background, 1955-1971

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

  Kyoto University;The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

  Kenji Ito

  From 01 Apr. 2017, To 31 Mar. 2023, Project Closed

  科学史;物理学史;高エネルギー物理学;冷戦;日本の物理学史;日本の科学史;高エネルギー加速器研究所;科学と外交;冷戦期科学;日本科学史;高エネルギー物理の歴史;ビッグサイエンス

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-17K01174/
• A historical study on the early postwar developments of nuclear physics in Japan, 1945-1958

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

  The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

  Kenji Ito

  From 01 Apr. 2012, To 31 Mar. 2016, Project Closed

  科学史;物理学史;原子核物理学;ラジオアイソトープ;仁科芳雄;原子核研究所;セルフ・オリエンタリズム;バトル・ゾーン;日本科学史;核物理の歴史;占領期;日本

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-24501244/
• Geneology of Japanese Particle Physicists analyzed from archived documents of Yukawa, Tomonaga and Sakata

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

  Tsukuba University of Technology

  Yoshinobu TAKAIWA

  From 18 Nov. 2011, To 31 Mar. 2014, Project Closed

  物理学史;原子核素粒子;アーカイブズ学;データベース;インターネット公開;科学史;史料データベース;素粒子物理学;アーカイブズ;インターネット公開サーバ

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-23240111/
• A historical study of the birth of atomic physics in Japan, 1920-1945

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

  The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

  Kenji ITO

  From 01 Apr. 2009, To 31 Mar. 2012, Project Closed

  物理学史;日本の科学史;仁科芳雄;量子力学史;原子物理学

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21500976/
• Databases of Memorial Archives of H. Yukawa, S. Tomonaga, and S. Sakata

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

  Tsukuba University of Technology

  Yoshinobu TAKAIWA

  From 01 Apr. 2008, To 31 Mar. 2011, Project Closed

  科学史;アーカイブズ学;史料整理;素粒子論;データベース;アーカイブズ;資料整理;科学史(物理学史);素粒子物理学

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-20240073/
• Construction of the Archives on the modern history of Big Sciences by Oral History and its communization

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

  The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

  Kohji HIRATA

  From 01 Apr. 2006, To 31 Mar. 2010, Project Closed

  オーラルヒストリー;アーカイブズ;巨大科学;現代史;映像;資源共有化;社会史;映像アーカイブズ

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-18200052/
• 日本における初期の産業用ロボット技術開発の歴史的研究

  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

  The Graduate University for Advanced Studies;The University of Tokyo

  伊藤 憲二

  From 01 Apr. 2005, To 31 Mar. 2007, Project Closed

  科学技術社会論;産業用ロボット;ユーザー論;ユーザー研究

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-17700631/

Education

Teaching subject(s)

• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Readings in Humanities and Social Sciences (Letters, English)B-E1

  HA03, Fall, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Master's Thesis

  M990, Year-long, Graduate School of Letters, 0
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Graduation Thesis

  9990, Year-long, Faculty of Letters, 12
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  History of Science (Lectures)

  8208, Fall, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  History of Science (Lectures)

  8206, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Relay Seminars for Undergraduate Students (Seminars)

  0062, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  8241, Fall, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Philosophy and History of Science (Special Lectures)

  8231, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Philosophy and History of Science (Special Lectures)

  8231, Fall, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  8241, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Media and Culture Studies (Seminars)

  8944, Fall, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  8247, Fall, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  8243, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Media and Culture Studies (Seminars)

  8944, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Philosophy and History of Science (Special Lectures)

  8231, Fall, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Philosophy and History of Science (Special Lectures)

  8231, Spring, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Media and Culture Studies (Seminars)

  8944, Fall, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  8241, Spring, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  8241, Fall, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  M383, Spring, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  M383, Fall, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  Media and Culture Studies (Seminars)

  8944, Spring, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Master's Thesis

  M990, Year-long, Graduate School of Letters, 0
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Graduation Thesis

  9990, Year-long, Faculty of Letters, 12
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  8241, Spring, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  8241, Fall, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Philosophy and History of Science (Special Lectures)

  8231, Spring, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  M383, Spring, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  M383, Fall, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Philosophy and History of Science (Special Lectures)

  8231, Fall, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  8241, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  8241, Fall, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Philosophy and History of Science (Special Lectures)

  8231, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  8247, Fall, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Philosophy and History of Science (Seminars)

  8243, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Philosophy and History of Science (Special Lectures)

  8231, Fall, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  History of Science (Lectures)

  8208, Fall, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  History of Science (Lectures)

  8206, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2

Participation in PhD Defense

• 戦前日本の電気通信工学，1891-1937

  KAWANISHI TOMA, Graduate School of Letters, Sub-chief Examiner

  23 Mar. 2023

Part-time lecturer

• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  副論文指導

  国立大学法人総合研究大学院大学　先導科学研究科

Administration

Faculty management (title, position)

• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2026

  広報・社会連携委員会委員（現代）

Academic, Social Contribution

Committee Memberships

• From Jun. 2023, To Present

  委員, 京都哲学会
• From Dec. 2022, To Present

  Member, Journal for the History of Knowledge Editorial Board
• From Jan. 2015, To Dec. 2020

  Editorial Board Member, Engaging Science Technology, and Society
• From Sep. 2016, To Sep. 2018

  STS Infrastructure Award Committee, Society for Social Studies of Science
• From Jul. 2013, To Jul. 2017

  Vice President, Commission of Physics, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science/Division of History of Science and Technology
• From Jul. 2013, To Jul. 2017

  President, International Association for Science and Cultural Diversity
• From Feb. 2014, To Sep. 2016

  STS Infrastructure (Building STS) Award Committee (Chair), Society for Social Studies of Science
• From Oct. 2013, To Aug. 2014

  Fleck Prize Committee, Society for Social Studies of Science
• From Dec. 2011, To Aug. 2014

  Council, Society for Social Studies of Science
• From Nov. 2011, To Aug. 2014

  Council Member, Society for Social Studies of Science
• From Nov. 2011, To Oct. 2013

  Mullins Prize Committee (Chair), Society for Social Studies of Science
• From Oct. 2012, To Aug. 2013

  Carson Prize Committee, Society for Social Studies of Science
• From Jul. 2009, To Jul. 2013

  Vice President and Treasurer, International Association for Science and Cultural Diversity
• From Jul. 2009, To Jul. 2013

  Vice President and Treasurer, International Association for Science and Cultural Diversity
• From Jul. 2005, To Jul. 2009

  Council Member, International Association for Science and Cultural Diversity