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Kikunae Ikeda
19/20th-century Japanese chemist
Kikunae Ikeda (池田 菊苗, Ikeda Kikunae, 8 October 1864[citation needed] – 3 May 1936) was a Japanese chemist and Tokyo Imperial University professor of chemistry who, in 1908, uncovered the chemical basis of a taste he named umami.
It is one of the five basic tastes along with sweet, bitter, sour and salty.[1]
Education
Ikeda graduated in 1889 from Tokyo Imperial University in chemistry. In 1891, he became a professor at the Higher Normal School of Tokyo, in 1896 he became an associate professor at Tokyo Imperial University.
From 1899, Prof.
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Ikeda studied in Germany for two years at the laboratory of Prof. Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald at the University of Leipzig, which was then the center of physical chemistry. After a brief stay in London, he returned to Tokyo in 1901 and became a full professor in chemistry at Tokyo Imperial University.[2]
Discoveries
Further information: Monosodium glutamate