Hidetsugu yagi biography template

Japanese electrical engineer

Hidetsugu Yagi (八木 秀次, Yagi Hidetsugu, January 28, 1886 – January 19, 1976) was a Japanese electrical engineer from Osaka, Japan.

When working at Tohoku Imperial University, he wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his assistant Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world.

The Yagi-Uda antenna, patented in 1926, allows directional transmission using radio waves, and is especially useful in the very high frequency and ultra high frequency radio bands .

Antennas of this type were widely used for television and radio reception, and are still common in communication and radar systems. ^{[citation needed]} Yagi also tried, unsuccessfully, to introduce a wireless power transmission system.^{[citation needed]} He participated in establishing the Chiba Institute of Technology.^{[1][citation needed]} He was the fourth president of Osaka University from February 1946 to Decembe