1960 - Today
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 200,406 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Hiroshi Amano is the 449th most popular physicist (up from 494th in 2019), the 805th most popular biography from Japan (up from 855th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Physicist.
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Among physicists, Hiroshi Amano ranks 449 out of 717. Before him are Ivan Puluj, Heinrich Rubens, Grote Reber, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Jacques Babinet, and William Robert Grove. After him are Walther Ritz, Charles Galton Darwin, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Giovanni Poleni, Walter Heitler, and Alan Sokal.
1845 - 1918
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 443
1865 - 1922
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 444
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 445
1840 - 1910
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 446
1794 - 1872
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 447
1811 - 1896
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 448
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 449
1878 - 1909
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 450
1887 - 1962
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 451
1822 - 1880
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 452
1683 - 1761
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 453
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 454
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 455
Among people born in 1960, Hiroshi Amano ranks 111. Before him are Yves Leterme, Greta Scacchi, Mauro Tassotti, J. Christopher Stevens, Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean, and Timothy Hutton. After him are Didier Burkhalter, Jane Lynch, Julio César Romero, Hong Sang-soo, Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, and Jürgen Schult.
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 105
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 106
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 107
1960 - 2012
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 108
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 109
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 110
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 111
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 112
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 113
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 114
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 115
1960 - Present
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 116
1960 - Present
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 117
Among people born in Japan, Hiroshi Amano ranks 805 out of 6,048. Before him are Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (1946), Yukio Shimomura (1932), Kyuichi Tokuda (1894), Goro Shimura (1930), Shigemaru Takenokoshi (1906), and Prince Munetaka (1242). After him are Kōzō Okamoto (1947), Kamo no Chōmei (1155), Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858), Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896), Ashikaga Yoshihide (1538), and Ōtomo no Yakamochi (718).
1946 - 2012
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 799
1932 - Present
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 800
1894 - 1953
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 801
1930 - 2019
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 802
1906 - 1980
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 803
1242 - 1274
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 804
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 805
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 806
1155 - 1216
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 807
1858 - 1954
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 808
1896 - 1982
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 809
1538 - 1568
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 810
718 - 785
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 811
Among physicists born in Japan, Hiroshi Amano ranks 13. Before him are Leo Esaki (1925), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), and Yoshio Nishina (1890). After him are Takaaki Kajita (1959), Sumio Iijima (1939), Ted Fujita (1920), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), and Shoichi Sakata (1911).
1925 - Present
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 7
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 8
1940 - 2021
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 9
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 10
1865 - 1950
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 11
1890 - 1951
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 12
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 13
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 14
1939 - Present
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 15
1920 - 1998
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 16
1909 - 1980
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 17
1911 - 1970
HPI: 45.51
Rank: 18