Hantaro Nagaoka was born on August 15, 1865 in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. He went to school at the University of Tokyo. Hantaro was a famous Japanese physicist who made important contributions to the atomic model. After receiving his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Tokyo in 1887, Nagaoka pursued higher education in Japan, including work on the subject. of magnetostriction with visiting British physicist CG Knott, who would later give a speech on the subject to the First International Congress of Physics. Between 1892 and 1896, Nagaoka studied abroad in Vienna, Berlin and Munich, where he was particularly fascinated by Ludwig Boltzmann's course on the kinetic theory of gases and by Maxwell's work on stability. rings of Saturn. Two influences which would later lead to the development of the Saturnian model of the atom in 1904. He traveled to many places...