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Osamu Shimomura

1928 to 2018 5 documented presences 4 places

Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Osamu Shimomura across 4 places, from 1928 to 2018. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and professor emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Osamu Shimomura was documented, and when

1928year
Fukuchiyamaattested “Born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto in 1928, Shimomura was brought up in Manchukuo (Manchuria, China) and Osaka, Japan while his father served as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army.” source: Wikipedia: Osamu Shimomura
1956year
Nagasakiattested “Shimomura's mentor at Nagasaki helped him find employment as an assistant to Professor Yoshimasa Hirata at Nagoya University in 1956.” source: Wikipedia: Osamu Shimomura
1956year
Nagoya Universityattested “Shimomura's mentor at Nagasaki helped him find employment as an assistant to Professor Yoshimasa Hirata at Nagoya University in 1956.” source: Wikipedia: Osamu Shimomura
1960year
Princeton Universityattested “This assignment led Shimomura to the successful identification of the protein causing the phenomenon, and he published the preliminary findings in the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan in a paper titled "Crystalline Cypridina luc…” source: Wikipedia: Osamu Shimomura
19 October 2018exact date
Nagasakiattested “Shimomura died on October 19, 2018, of cancer in Nagasaki.” source: Wikipedia: Osamu Shimomura

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Places Osamu Shimomura is documented in

Nagasaki2 presences · 1956 to 2018
Princeton University1 presence · 1960
Fukuchiyama1 presence · 1928
Nagoya University1 presence · 1956

Other places tied to Osamu Shimomura in the record

In each of these, a source puts Osamu Shimomura and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Osamu Shimomura was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

August 1945month
Isahaya, Nagasakimentioned “Later, his family moved to Isahaya, Nagasaki, 25 km from the epicenter of the August 1945 atomic bombing of the city.” source: Wikipedia: Osamu Shimomura
1958year
Princeton Universitymentioned “While working for Professor Hirata, he received a MS degree in organic chemistry in 1958 and, before leaving Japan for an appointment at Princeton University, a Ph.D.” source: Wikipedia: Osamu Shimomura
1960year
Nagoya Universitymentioned “in organic chemistry in 1960 at Nagoya University.” source: Wikipedia: Osamu Shimomura

Documented at the same place, the same year

Thích Nhất HạnhPrinceton University · 1960

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