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PHYSICIST

Hiroshi Amano

1960 - Today

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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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  • 200k

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  • 52.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hiroshi Amano ranks 449 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Hiroshi Amano ranks 111Before 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.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroshi Amano ranks 805 out of 6,048Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Hiroshi Amano ranks 13Before 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).