Hayari Miyake

Hayari Miyake
三宅 速
Miyake, c. 1910
Born(1866-03-16)16 March 1866
Died29 June 1945(1945-06-29) (aged 79)
EducationDoctor of medicine
Alma materTokyo Imperial University
ChildrenHiroshi Miyake [ja]
Japanese name
Kanji三宅
Kanaみやけ はやり
Transcriptions
RomanizationMiyake Hayari

Hayari Miyake (Japanese: 三宅 速, romanizedMiyake Hayari; 16 March 1866 – 29 June 1945) was a Japanese surgeon specializing in gastrointestinal and central nervous system surgeries. He was an assistant to Julius Scriba, a professor of surgery at Tokyo Imperial University, and later became a student of Jan Mikulicz-Radecki, a German-Polish-Austrian surgeon. Miyake headed the Department of Surgery at Kyushu Medical School, where he taught Hakaru Hashimoto, the discoverer of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Miyake served as the president of the Japan Surgical Society and was a long-time friend of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein.