1930 - Today
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 7,454 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Akira Suzuki is the 160th most popular chemist (down from 144th in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Japan (down from 153rd in 2019) and the 2nd 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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Among chemists, Akira Suzuki ranks 160 out of 509. Before him are Harry Kroto, George Andrew Olah, John Frederic Daniell, Wilfrid Voynich, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, and Satoshi Ōmura. After him are Robert Bruce Merrifield, Paul D. Boyer, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Nicolas Leblanc, Roald Hoffmann, and Hans von Euler-Chelpin.
1939 - 2016
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 154
1927 - 2017
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 155
1790 - 1845
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 156
1865 - 1930
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 157
1802 - 1870
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 158
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 159
1930 - Present
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 160
1921 - 2006
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 161
1918 - 2018
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 162
1914 - 1994
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 163
1742 - 1806
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 164
1937 - Present
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 165
1873 - 1964
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 166
Among people born in 1930, Akira Suzuki ranks 67. Before him are Robert Aumann, Harvey Milk, Stanley Miller, Joanne Woodward, Jesús Franco, and Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma. After him are Luce Irigaray, Gérard Genette, Derek Walcott, Pierre Bergé, Ivan Silayev, and Richard Donner.
1930 - Present
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 61
1930 - 1978
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 62
1930 - 2007
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 63
1930 - Present
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 64
1930 - 2013
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 65
1930 - 2010
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 66
1930 - Present
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 67
1930 - Present
HPI: 61.01
Rank: 68
1930 - 2018
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 69
1930 - 2017
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 70
1930 - 2017
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 71
1930 - 2023
HPI: 60.78
Rank: 72
1930 - 2021
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 73
Among people born in Japan, Akira Suzuki ranks 168 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Ōjin (210), Kitarō (1953), Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), and Emperor Tenji (626). After him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Edogawa Ranpo (1894), Emperor Kanmu (737), Empress Genshō (680), and Emperor Richū (336).
210 - 310
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 162
1953 - Present
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 163
1918 - 2019
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 164
1548 - 1610
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 165
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 166
626 - 672
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 167
1930 - Present
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 168
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 169
845 - 903
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 170
1894 - 1965
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 171
737 - 806
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 172
680 - 748
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 173
336 - 405
HPI: 61.21
Rank: 174
Among chemists born in Japan, Akira Suzuki ranks 2. Before him are Satoshi Ōmura (1935). After him are Osamu Shimomura (1928), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 1
1930 - Present
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 2
1928 - 2018
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 3
1915 - 1989
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 4
1864 - 1936
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 5
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 6
1918 - 1998
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 7
1938 - Present
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 8
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 9
1959 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.71
Rank: 11