BIOLOGIST

Akira Miyawaki

1928 - 2021

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Akira Miyawaki (宮脇 昭, Miyawaki Akira, 29 January 1928 – 16 July 2021) was a Japanese botanist and an expert in plant ecology who specialized in seeds and natural forests. He was active worldwide as a specialist in natural vegetation restoration of degraded land. He was professor emeritus at Yokohama National University and director of the Japanese Center for International Studies in Ecology since 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akira Miyawaki has received more than 390,752 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Akira Miyawaki is the 548th most popular biologist, the 1,052nd most popular biography from Japan and the 8th most popular Japanese Biologist.

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  • 390k

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  • 50.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Akira Miyawaki ranks 548 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Friedrich Meckel, Alfred Newton, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Harald Sverdrup, and Otto von Münchhausen. After him are John Gilbert Baker, Alice Hamilton, Otto Kuntze, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Salomon Müller, and Johann Gerhard König.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Akira Miyawaki ranks 312. Before him are Cristina Calderón, Hiroshi Nakajima, Théodore Sindikubwabo, Mikio Sato, Péter Boross, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi. After him are Jacques Dupont, Peter Carsten, Péter Bacsó, Leonid Bronevoy, Bella Davidovich, and Eugenio Monti. Among people deceased in 2021, Akira Miyawaki ranks 278. Before him are Gimax, Friederike Mayröcker, Pavol Molnár, José Freire Falcão, Jane Powell, and C. George Boeree. After him are Giuseppe Rotunno, Sam Jones, Hana Hegerová, William Smith, Jean-François Stévenin, and Henry Darrow.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Miyawaki ranks 1,052 out of 6,245. Before him are Takaji Mori (1943), Shigeo Yaegashi (1933), Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu (1911), Hiroshi Yoshida (1876), Teruo Nimura (1943), and Norio Wakamoto (1945). After him are Takeshi Okada (1956), Shizuo Miyama (null), Ichirō Ozawa (1942), Unkei (1151), So Yamamura (1910), and Kazuhiko Inoue (1954).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Akira Miyawaki ranks 8. Before him are Susumu Tonegawa (1939), Tomitaro Makino (1862), Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Motoo Kimura (1924), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), and Takenoshin Nakai (1882). After him are Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Jinzō Matsumura (1856), Akira Endo (1933), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Yasutomi Nishizuka (1932), and Tokiharu Abe (1911).

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