Hisashi Kimura (木村 栄,Kimura Hisashi; October 4, 1870 – September 26, 1943) was a Japaneseastronomer originally fromKanazawa, Ishikawa.[1]
He devoted his career to the study and measurement ofvariation in latitude, building upon the work ofSeth Carlo Chandler, who discovered theChandler wobble. In 1899, he became the first director of theInternational Latitude Observatory atMizusawa,Japan.[2]
He won theGold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1936. He was one of the first people to be awarded theOrder of Culture when it was established in 1937.
The craterKimura on theMoon is named after him, the same for theasteroid6233 Kimura.
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