> The persons who took on the challenge of determining the last two digits of absolute zero were Masao Kinoshita and Jiro Oishi of the Department of Physics. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Kinoshita engaged in heat transfer and low-temperature experiments in Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. He returned to Japan in 1927, and was later assigned to Tokyo Tech as a faculty member. Though fluent in English and popular with people, he was a man of modest character who did not like being in the limelight. Oishi, who studied under Kinoshita, was responsible for the planning and implementation of the experiments that they were to conduct.