Yusuke Hagihara
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Yusuke Hagihara (萩原雄祐 Hagihara Yūsuke, 1897 – 1979) was a Japanese astronomer.
Hagihara contributed to celestial mechanics and perturbation theory and wrote two lovely books on these subjects. He won the James Craig Watson Medal in 1960.
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- Hagihara, Yusuke (1970). Celestial mechanics (three volumes; revision of 1947 edition). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-08037-0 (vol 1).
- Hagihara, Yusuke (1971). Theories of equilibrium figures of a rotating homogeneous fluid mass. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office. NAS 1.21:186.