Cultivators: Kono Yasui

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Society & Culture, Education, History

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Kono Yasui (1880-1971) was a Japanese biologist and cytologist who became the first Japanese woman to receive a doctoral degree in science. Her academic and scientific career defied gender norms of the time and made important advancements in genetics.

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1:26.8	Within every plant, there is a world.
1:31.1	And within a small village in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, there was a woman who dedicated her whole career to studying those worlds.
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2:04.8	Kono was born in the small village of Sanbon Matsu, Japan in 1880. Her parents owned a shipping
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