1918 - 1998
Kenichi Fukui (福井 謙一, Fukui Ken'ichi, October 4, 1918 – January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist, known as the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Fukui was co-recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 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 124,471 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Kenichi Fukui is the 271st most popular chemist (down from 265th in 2019), the 362nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 388th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Chemist.
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Among chemists, Kenichi Fukui ranks 271 out of 509. Before him are Luis Federico Leloir, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Vladimir Markovnikov, Hideki Shirakawa, Alan MacDiarmid, and Richard Smalley. After him are Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Edmond H. Fischer, Fraser Stoddart, Thomas A. Steitz, Alexander Shulgin, and William Henry.
1906 - 1987
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 265
1797 - 1858
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 266
1838 - 1904
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 267
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 268
1927 - 2007
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 269
1943 - 2005
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 270
1918 - 1998
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 271
1709 - 1782
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 272
1920 - 2021
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 273
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 274
1940 - 2018
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 275
1925 - 2014
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 276
1774 - 1836
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 277
Among people born in 1918, Kenichi Fukui ranks 74. Before him are Yigal Allon, Jean-Marie Loret, Kakuei Tanaka, João Figueiredo, Gabriel Axel, and Philip José Farmer. After him are Humaira Begum, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Takashi Kasahara, Spiro Agnew, Choi Hong Hi, and Fernando Peyroteo. Among people deceased in 1998, Kenichi Fukui ranks 59. Before him are Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Benjamin Spock, Kurt Franz, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Martin Rodbell, and Roddy McDowall. After him are Marie-Louise von Franz, Anne Desclos, Remo Giazotto, Marie-Louise Meilleur, Shoichi Nishimura, and John Derek.
1918 - 1980
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 68
1918 - 1985
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 69
1918 - 1993
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 70
1918 - 1999
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 71
1918 - 2014
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 72
1918 - 2009
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 73
1918 - 1998
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 74
1918 - 2002
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 75
1918 - 1990
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 76
1918 - Present
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 77
1918 - 1996
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 78
1918 - 2002
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 79
1918 - 1978
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 80
1909 - 1998
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 53
1903 - 1998
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 54
1914 - 1998
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 55
1930 - 1998
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 56
1925 - 1998
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 57
1928 - 1998
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 58
1918 - 1998
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 59
1915 - 1998
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 60
1907 - 1998
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 61
1910 - 1998
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 62
1880 - 1998
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 63
1912 - 1998
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 64
1926 - 1998
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 65
Among people born in Japan, Kenichi Fukui ranks 362 out of 6,048. Before him are Akira Nozawa (1914), Empress Masako (1963), Emperor Uda (867), Azai Nagamasa (1545), Inukai Tsuyoshi (1855), and Torakusu Yamaha (1851). After him are Hirohiko Araki (1960), Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), Keizō Obuchi (1937), Masao Takada (null), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), and Takeshi Natori (null).
1914 - 2000
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 356
1963 - Present
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 357
867 - 931
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 358
1545 - 1573
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 359
1855 - 1932
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 360
1851 - 1916
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 361
1918 - 1998
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 362
1960 - Present
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 363
1891 - 1945
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 364
1937 - 2000
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 365
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 366
1618 - 1694
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 367
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 368
Among chemists born in Japan, Kenichi Fukui ranks 7. Before him are Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Akira Suzuki (1930), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), and Hideki Shirakawa (1936). After him are Ryōji Noyori (1938), Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 1
1930 - Present
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 2
1928 - 2018
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 3
1915 - 1989
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 4
1864 - 1936
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 5
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 6
1918 - 1998
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 7
1938 - Present
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 8
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 9
1959 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.71
Rank: 11