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Hidetsugu Yagi

1886 - 1976

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Hidetsugu Yagi (八木 秀次, Yagi Hidetsugu, January 28, 1886 – January 19, 1976) was a Japanese electrical engineer from Osaka, Japan. When working at Tohoku Imperial University, he wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his assistant Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world. The Yagi-Uda antenna, patented in 1926, allows directional communication using electromagnetic waves, and is now installed on millions of houses throughout the world for radio and television reception. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hidetsugu Yagi has received more than 217,798 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Hidetsugu Yagi is the 231st most popular engineer (down from 222nd in 2019), the 1,039th most popular biography from Japan (down from 997th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Hidetsugu Yagi has had the most page views in the with 22,540 views, followed by English (10,982), and German (2,345). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (143.75%), German (49.65%), and Russian (27.28%)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hidetsugu Yagi ranks 231 out of 389. Before him are Charles Renard, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, Frederick W. Lanchester, Johann Georg Halske, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, and Marc Isambard Brunel. After him are Arkhip Lyulka, Harvey Postlethwaite, Erwin Komenda, Alexander Mikulin, James B. Francis, and Essam Sharaf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Hidetsugu Yagi ranks 182. Before him are Aloïse Corbaz, Siegfried Sassoon, Felix Timmermans, Franz Josef Popp, Austin Osman Spare, and Lucien Gaudin. After him are George Cœdès, Chester Conklin, G. I. Taylor, Muthulakshmi Reddy, August Rei, and Aleksei Kruchyonykh. Among people deceased in 1976, Hidetsugu Yagi ranks 144. Before him are Giorgio Ferrini, Walter Piston, Friedrich Schulz, Ritwik Ghatak, Haddon Sundblom, and Lily Pons. After him are Gina Bachauer, Viggo Kampmann, Giuseppe Cavanna, Maurice Dobb, Pierre Jean Jouve, and Julius Döpfner.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hidetsugu Yagi ranks 1,039 out of 6,245. Before him are Susumu Hirasawa (1954), Tōru Furuya (1953), Hideki Maeda (1954), Keizo Imai (1950), Ken Ogata (1937), and Tetsuya Chiba (1939). After him are Shigefumi Mori (1951), Uchida Kōsai (1865), Jinichi Kusaka (1888), Shinji Kagawa (1989), Masatada Ishii (1967), and Tokutaro Ukon (1913).

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Among ENGINEERS In Japan

Among engineers born in Japan, Hidetsugu Yagi ranks 6. Before him are Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Jiro Horikoshi (1903), Masaru Ibuka (1908), Hidesaburō Ueno (1872), and Genichi Taguchi (1924). After him are Naoki Hattori (1966).

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