Who is Hidetsugu Yagi on Google Doodle Today

Hidetsugu Yagi was a Japanese electrical engineer from Osaka. When working at Tohoku University, he wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna design by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world.

The Yagi antenna, patented in 1926, allows directional communication using electromagnetic waves, and is now installed on millions of houses throughout the world for radio and television reception. More about Hidetsugu Yagi on WikiPedia.