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 6,392 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Akira Suzuki is the 144th most popular chemist (down from 134th in 2019), the 153rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 117th 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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Among chemists, Akira Suzuki ranks 144 out of 510. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Ascanio Sobrero, Jean-Marie Lehn, John Frederic Daniell, Clara Immerwahr, and Edward Adelbert Doisy. After him are John Newlands, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Stanley Miller, Robert S. Mulliken, William Howard Stein, and Georg Wittig.
1800 - 1884
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 138
1812 - 1888
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 139
1939 - Present
HPI: 70.35
Rank: 140
1790 - 1845
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 141
1870 - 1915
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 142
1893 - 1986
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 143
1930 - Present
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 144
1837 - 1898
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 145
1897 - 1967
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 146
1930 - 2007
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 147
1896 - 1986
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 148
1911 - 1980
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 149
1897 - 1987
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 150
Among people born in 1930, Akira Suzuki ranks 64. Before him are Jean Rochefort, Buck Henry, Johan Galtung, John Young, Derek Walcott, and Reinhard Selten. After him are Jesús Franco, Stanley Miller, Gérard Genette, Harvey Milk, William C. Campbell, and Richard Donner.
1930 - 2017
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 58
1930 - 2020
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 59
1930 - Present
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 60
1930 - 2018
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 61
1930 - 2017
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 62
1930 - 2016
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 63
1930 - Present
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 64
1930 - 2013
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 65
1930 - 2007
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 66
1930 - 2018
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 67
1930 - 1978
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 68
1930 - Present
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 69
1930 - Present
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 70
Among people born in Japan, Akira Suzuki ranks 153 out of 5,560. Before him are Sen no Rikyū (1522), Akira Kitaguchi (1935), Emperor Go-Daigo (1288), Akira Yoshizawa (1911), Emperor Momozono (1741), and Tsukasa Hosaka (1937). After him are Nagisa Oshima (1932), Takashi Kasahara (1918), Emperor Kōgen (-272), Empress Meishō (1624), Yasuo Takamori (1934), and Yozo Aoki (1929).
1522 - 1591
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 147
1935 - Present
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 148
1288 - 1339
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 149
1911 - 2005
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 150
1741 - 1762
HPI: 70.28
Rank: 151
1937 - 2018
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 152
1930 - Present
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 153
1932 - 2013
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 154
1918 - Present
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 155
272 BC - 157 BC
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 156
1624 - 1696
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 157
1934 - 2016
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 158
1929 - 2014
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 159
Among chemists born in Japan, Akira Suzuki ranks 1. After him are Osamu Shimomura (1928), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).
1930 - Present
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 1
1928 - 2018
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 2
1915 - 1989
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 3
1918 - 1998
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 4
1864 - 1936
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 5
1936 - Present
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 6
1938 - Present
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 7
1935 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 8
1948 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 9
1959 - Present
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 11