PHYSICIST

Hiroshi Amano

1960 - Today

Photo of Hiroshi Amano

Icon of person Hiroshi Amano

Hiroshi Amano (天野 浩, Amano Hiroshi, born September 11, 1960) is a Japanese physicist, engineer and inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiroshi Amano has received more than 217,590 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Hiroshi Amano is the 382nd most popular physicist (up from 449th in 2019), the 563rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 802nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hiroshi Amano ranks 382 out of 851. Before him are Peter Mansfield, John Mauchly, Nathan Rosen, Ralph Asher Alpher, Georgy Flyorov, and Duncan Haldane. After him are Oskar Klein, Christopher Polhem, Sameera Moussa, Robert Brout, Louis Poinsot, and Wolfgang Ketterle.

Most Popular Physicists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Hiroshi Amano ranks 81. Before him are Igor Belanov, Richard Ramirez, Laurent Fignon, Steve Vai, Simonetta Sommaruga, and Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. After him are Yannick Noah, Leos Carax, Vince Clarke, Nicoletta Braschi, Michael Hutchence, and Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais.

Others Born in 1960

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroshi Amano ranks 563 out of 6,245. Before him are Hosokawa Gracia (1563), Gosho Aoyama (1963), Mikio Naruse (1905), Kiyosi Itô (1915), Emperor Horikawa (1079), and Hibari Misora (1937). After him are Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758), Shintaro Ishihara (1932), Uesugi Kagekatsu (1556), Tokizo Ichihashi (1909), Yanosuke Watanabe (null), and Emperor Suzaku (923).

Others born in Japan

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Hiroshi Amano ranks 12. Before him are Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), and Yoshio Nishina (1890). After him are Takaaki Kajita (1959), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), Sumio Iijima (1939), Shoichi Sakata (1911), and Ted Fujita (1920).

Japanese born Physicists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous