Shirōta Kusakabe

He won the Imperial Academy Prize for his work on rock elasticity.

[5] In 1900, he graduated from the Department of Physics, Tokyo Imperial University.

From August 1907 to December 1910, he studied abroad in Europe and visited Germany, France and the United Kingdom.

[6][7] He studied under Hantaro Nagaoka and proceeded with research on rocks and seismic waves.

[8] In 1914, he won the Imperial Academy Prize for his work on rock elasticity.

Kotaro Honda , Albert Einstein , Keiichi Aichi and Shirōta Kusakabe on the occasion of Einstein's 1922 visit to Tohoku University [ 1 ] [ 2 ]