Tomitarō Makino
Tomitarō Makino (牧野富太郎, Makino Tomitarō) is a Botaniste Japan board, born the April 24th 1862 with Sakawa (Kōchi) and dead the January 18th 1957.
It is a botanist famous for his work in taxonomy and was baptized the “father of Japanese botany”. He is one of the first Japanese botanists to classify all the plants of Japan following the method developed by Carl von Linné (1707-1778). Its research makes him gather 50 000 specimens which enable him to carry out its illustrated Flore of Japan . In spite of the abandonment of its schooling as of the primary education, it succeeds in obtaining a title of science doctor. Its birthday is celebrated like the day of botany in Japan.
Biography
Tomitarō Makino is born in Sakawa, famous for its Saké. His/her parents die during his young age and it is raised by his grandmother. It leaves the school at only thirteen years and develops a strong interest for the English language, the geography and, especially, botany. In 1880, he becomes teacher in an elementary school of his birthplace and publishes its first scientific article then.In 1884, it leaves to Tokyo to continue its passion for botany with the Université of Tokyo. It is constant in its research by the professor Ryokichi Yatabe (1851-1899) and starts to make appear an academic review of botany in 1887. It Marie in 1890, union of which will be born thirteen children.
In 1936, it makes appear Makino shokubutsugaku zenshū (the book of botany of Makino), in six volumes, in which it describes 6 000 S including 1 000 news for science. Its most famous work is Makino shin Nihon shokubutsu zukan (or illustrated Flora of Japan de Makino), which appears in 1940 and is still a reference book today.
Makino described during its life 2 500 plants (1 000 species and 1 500 varieties). Moreover, he discovered approximately 600 other new species.
Source
- Short biography based on '' Makino Tomitarō '' of Rou Hikawa, Popura editions, 1980.