Hisashi Kimura

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Hisashi Kimura (木村栄) (1870 – September 26, 1943) was a Japanese astronomer.

He devoted his career to the study and measurement of variation in latitude, building upon the work of Seth Carlo Chandler, who discovered the Chandler wobble. He was director of the International Latitude Observatory at Mizusawa, Japan.

He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1936. He was one of the first people to be awarded the Order of Culture when it was established in 1937.

Kimura crater on the Moon is named after him.

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