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19/20th-century Japanese chemist

Kikunae Ikeda (池田 菊苗, Ikeda Kikunae, 8 October ^{[citation needed]} – 3 May ) was a Japanese chemist and Tokyo Imperial University professor of chemistry who, in , 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 from Tokyo Imperial University in chemistry. In , he became a professor at the Higher Normal School of Tokyo, in he became an associate professor at Tokyo Imperial University.

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From , Prof. 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 and became a full professor in chemistry at Tokyo Imperial University.^[2]

Discoveries

Further information: Monosodium glutamate and Umami

In at the Tokyo Imperia