A chiming biological clock?

What is it famous for? Without doubt, the Tanaguchi Foundation’s major achievement was the funding of a cyclotron at Osaka University between 1937 and 1943. The construction of that facility was a major boost to Osaka University and enabled it to attract many young scientists to its new Physics department. One of the Department’s first Professors was Hideki Yukawa, the theoretical physicist who in 1949 became the first Japanese scientist to receive the Nobel prize.