History of Nuclear Physics Research at Osaka University

1931	Osaka Imperial University was founded. The first president was Hantaro Nagaoka (famous for Saturnian Model of the Atom)
1933	School of Science was founded. Hideki Yukawa got a post of lecturer. Construction of a Cockcroft-Walton accelerator started (Masashi Kikuchi).
1935	Dr. Hideki Yukawa published the first paper on the meson theory. Construction of a cyclotron started (Masashi Kikuchi).
1937	Construction of a cyclotron completed.
1940	Construction of a van de Graaff accelerator started (Tetsuo Wakatsuki and Koji Fushimi).
1955	Laboratory of Nuclear Studies has been founded under school of science.

History of Research Center for Nuclear Physics

1962	Science Council of Japan exhorted the government to found a laboratory of nuclear physics.
1971	Research Center for Nuclear Physics was founded as a collaboration research center of the nuclear physics community. The first director was Shotaro Yamabe.
1973	Construction of the AVF cyclotron completed.
1976	Collaboration research experiments started.
1985	Cyclotron cascade project was planned.
1987	Construction of the RING cyclotron started.
1991	Construction of the RING cyclotron completed.
1997	Oto Cosmo Observatory was constructed.
2000	Laser Electron Photon beam line at SPring-8 (LEPS) was constructed.
2005	Upgrade of the injector cyclotron completed.