Yukio Yamada

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Yukio Yamada

• A Leader in Phycology in Japan Considered to be
  the founder of modern Japanese phycology

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Yamadas Background

• Born in 1900 in Kyoto Japan
• Entered Daiichi High School in 1918
• In 1921, Yamada entered the Botanical Institute
  of the Faculty of Science at the Imperial
  University of Tokyo
• Professor Bunzo Hayata convinced Yamada he should
  study algae

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Positions Held

• Professor of Taxonomic Botany for the Faculty of
  Science at Hokkaido University in Sapporo
• First director of the Institute of Algological
  Research
• Member of the University Senate and Dean of the
  Faculty of Science at Hokkaido University
• Founded and served as president of the Japanese
  Society of Phycology
• President of the International Phycological
  Society

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Primary Contributions

• Detailed taxonomic, morphological and floristic
  accounts of red, brown and green algae from Japan
• Described nearly 200 new taxa of marine algae
• Floristic Studies of marine algae from Taiwan
• Life history studies of various marine algae,
  especially Chlorophyta
• Mentor for almost 50 graduate students

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Acknowledgement

• Garbary, David J., and Michael J. Wynne, eds.
• Prominent Phycologists of the 20th Century.
• Hantsport, Nova Scotia Lancelot Press
  Ltd.,1996.