CHEMIST

Kenichi Fukui

1918 - 1998

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Kenichi Fukui (福井 謙一, Fukui Ken'ichi, October 4, 1918 – January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist. He became the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry when he won the 1981 prize with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenichi Fukui has received more than 131,359 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Kenichi Fukui is the 206th most popular chemist (up from 271st in 2019), the 230th most popular biography from Japan (up from 360th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Kenichi Fukui ranks 206 out of 602. Before him are Hermann Kolbe, Osamu Shimomura, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Mario J. Molina, Nikolay Semyonov, and Charles Adolphe Wurtz. After him are John Fenn, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Gerhard Herzberg, Wallace Carothers, Friedrich Sertürner, and Satoshi Ōmura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Kenichi Fukui ranks 54. Before him are Fanny Blankers-Koen, Paul D. Boyer, Richard Winters, André Bazin, Pavlik Morozov, and João Goulart. After him are Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Rosemary Kennedy, Anna Mani, François Tombalbaye, E. Howard Hunt, and Lila Kedrova. Among people deceased in 1998, Kenichi Fukui ranks 31. Before him are Allan MacLeod Cormack, Linda McCartney, Alfred Schnittke, George H. Hitchings, André Weil, and Lúcio Costa. After him are Galina Ulanova, Bob Kane, Derek Barton, Nelson Goodman, Florence Griffith Joyner, and Martha Gellhorn.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenichi Fukui ranks 230 out of 6,245. Before him are Osamu Shimomura (1928), Kyu Sakamoto (1941), Emperor Ankō (401), Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887), Mikao Usui (1865), and Fujiko Fujio (1934). After him are Amakusa Shirō (1621), Emperor Go-Kameyama (1347), Yosano Akiko (1878), Hōjō Tokimune (1251), Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684), and Kenji Tochio (1941).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Kenichi Fukui ranks 3. Before him are Akira Suzuki (1930), and Osamu Shimomura (1928). After him are Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Takamine Jōkichi (1854), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).

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