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Upon his return to Tokyo, Asahina accepted an associate professor position at Tokyo Imperial University. For the next decade, Asahina was devoted to researching traditional and folk medicines of China and Japan. In 1925, he shifted his focus to
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Shibata, S. (2000). Yasuhiko Asahina (1880-1975) and His Studies on Lichenology and Chemistry of Lichen Metabolites. The Bryologist, 103(4), 710-719. Retrieved from
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During his childhood, Asahina developed an interest in plants. In 1902, he enrolled in the School of Pharmacy at
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Tsukané Yamasaki: In Memoriam: Syoziro Asahina (1913–2010). In: Species Diversity. Band 16, 2011, S. 81–83.
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differentiation of these lichens. Using this method, he helped clean up the taxonomy of the genus
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in 1923 for his contribution to research on Chinese drug principles. In 1943, he received the
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Harota, N. (2016). History of Modern Chemistry. Balwyn North Victoria: Trans Pacific Press.
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identical lichens contained different chemical compounds. Asahina developed a method of
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Asahina retired from the University of Tokyo in 1941. In 1954, he founded the
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of lichen metabolites. He utilized this chemical identification for
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was the only lichenologist in Japan. Asahina realized that some
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Culberson, William Louis; Culberson, Chicita F. (1965). "
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Tokyo, Japan
University of Tokyo
Lichenology
Syo Kurokawa
Author abbrev. (botany)
lichenologist
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Tokyo Imperial University
Chinese traditional medicine
Junichiro Shimoyama
Styrax obassia
Zürich
phytochemistry
Richard Willstätter
Berlin
Emil Fischer's laboratory
lichens
Atsushi Yasuda
morphologically
thalline
microcrystal test
taxonomic
Cladonia
Alectoria
Anzia
Cetraria
Lobaria
Parmelia
Ramalina

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