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Hantaro Nagaoka

1865 - 1950

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Hantaro Nagaoka (長岡 半太郎, Nagaoka Hantarō, August 19, 1865 – December 11, 1950) was a Japanese physicist and a pioneer of Japanese physics during the Meiji period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hantaro Nagaoka has received more than 187,791 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Hantaro Nagaoka is the 396th most popular physicist (up from 400th in 2019), the 633rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 687th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hantaro Nagaoka ranks 396 out of 717. Before him are Louis Paul Cailletet, Duncan Haldane, Hendrik Casimir, Leonard Susskind, Jacob Bekenstein, and Christopher Polhem. After him are William Watson, Georgy Flyorov, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Victor Weisskopf, John Kerr, and Hagen Kleinert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Hantaro Nagaoka ranks 65. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Rafael Merry del Val, Princess Olga Paley, Hannah Chaplin, Friedrich Paschen, and Eugene Botkin. After him are Prince Kan'in Kotohito, Archibald Leitch, Lucjan Żeligowski, James Henry Breasted, J. Walter Christie, and Max Heindel. Among people deceased in 1950, Hantaro Nagaoka ranks 67. Before him are Henry H. Arnold, Yvan Goll, Kim Kyu-sik, Olaf Stapledon, Traian Vuia, and Edwin Sutherland. After him are Walter Eucken, Walton Walker, Abraham Wald, Kazys Grinius, Ulrich Graf, and Lev Berg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hantaro Nagaoka ranks 633 out of 6,048. Before him are Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Kunihiko Kodaira (1915), Yoshida Shōin (1830), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), and Teiichi Matsumaru (1909). After him are Isamu Chō (1895), Yoshio Furukawa (1934), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Saigyō (1118), and Sen Katayama (1859).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Hantaro Nagaoka ranks 11. Before him are Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Leo Esaki (1925), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), and Shuji Nakamura (1954). After him are Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Sumio Iijima (1939), Ted Fujita (1920), and Toshiko Yuasa (1909).

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