CHEMIST

Akira Yoshino

1948 - Today

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Akira Yoshino (吉野 彰, Yoshino Akira, born 30 January 1948) is a Japanese chemist. He is a fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation and a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya. He created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery, which became used widely in cellular phones and notebook computers. Yoshino was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and John B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akira Yoshino has received more than 332,102 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Akira Yoshino is the 278th most popular chemist (up from 302nd in 2019), the 385th most popular biography from Japan (up from 479th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Akira Yoshino ranks 278 out of 602. Before him are Vladimir Markovnikov, Richard Abegg, William Henry Perkin, Martin Rodbell, William Henry, and Kamala Sohonie. After him are Robert H. Grubbs, Georg Brandt, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Henry Taube, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, and Andreas Sigismund Marggraf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Akira Yoshino ranks 106. Before him are Stevie Nicks, Ichirou Mizuki, Shaul Mofaz, Billy Crystal, Don Airey, and Salvador Puig Antich. After him are Mark Phillips, Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Hans Rosling, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, and Susan Atkins.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Yoshino ranks 385 out of 6,245. Before him are Tanaka Giichi (1864), Ōyama Iwao (1842), Sada Abe (1905), Emperor Go-Sanjō (1032), Enomoto Takeaki (1836), and Takeshi Inoue (1928). After him are Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Yoshirō Mori (1937), Hōjō Masako (1156), Takeo Wakabayashi (1907), Takeichi Nishi (1902), and Sessue Hayakawa (1886).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Akira Yoshino ranks 9. Before him are Kenichi Fukui (1918), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), and Kaoru Ishikawa (1915). After him are Koichi Tanaka (1959), Takamine Jōkichi (1854), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).

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