CHEMIST

Akira Suzuki

1930 - Today

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Akira Suzuki (鈴木 章, Suzuki Akira, born September 12, 1930) is a Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl-halide catalyzed by a palladium(0) complex, in 1979. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akira Suzuki has received more than 22,262 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Akira Suzuki is the 111th most popular chemist (up from 159th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Japan (up from 168th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Chemist.

Akira Suzuki is most famous for his work in the field of molecular biology, specifically for his discovery of the genetic sequence of DNA.

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  • 69.79

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  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Akira Suzuki ranks 111 out of 602. Before him are Robert Robinson, Konrad Emil Bloch, Richard R. Ernst, Fritz Strassmann, Per Teodor Cleve, and Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted. After him are Fritz Albert Lipmann, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Harold Urey, Archer Martin, and Vincent du Vigneaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Akira Suzuki ranks 44. Before him are George E. Smith, Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Gary Becker, Bernie Ecclestone, and Biljana Plavšić. After him are Derek Walcott, Félix Guattari, Lorin Maazel, Robert Wagner, Jean Rochefort, and Armin Mueller-Stahl.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Suzuki ranks 98 out of 6,245. Before him are Kūkai (774), Emperor Itoku (-553), Prince Shōtoku (574), Benkei (1155), Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740), and Naoto Kan (1946). After him are Paulo Miki (1564), Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), Empress Meishō (1624), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Joan Fontaine (1917), and Kunishige Kamamoto (1944).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Akira Suzuki ranks 1. After him are Osamu Shimomura (1928), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Takamine Jōkichi (1854), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).

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