Shigeru Nakayama (中山茂) (1928–2014) was a Japanese historian of science.
Nakayama was born in 1928, in Amagasaki, and brought up there.[1] He survived the Hiroshima atom bomb of 1945.[2] He left Hiroshima Higher School in 1948, and graduated from Tokyo University with a degree in mathematical astronomy in 1951.[3][4]
As a graduate student, Nakayama was a Fulbright scholar.[2] He worked with Thomas Kuhn and then Joseph Needham.[3] Besides those two scholars, he regarded Kiyosi Yabuuti (1906–2000) as one of his teachers.[1] At Harvard in the late 1950s, he met fellow graduate student Nathan Sivin, with whom he worked for many decades. [5] Nakayama was on the staff of Tokyo University from 1960 to 1989.[3] As Professor Emeritus, he was at Kanagawa University.[6]
Nakayama died in Tokyo on Saturday 10 May 2014.[7]