CHEMIST

Kikunae Ikeda

1864 - 1936

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Kikunae Ikeda (池田 菊苗, Ikeda Kikunae, 8 October 1864 – 3 May 1936) was a Japanese chemist and Tokyo Imperial University professor of chemistry who, in 1908, uncovered the chemical basis of a taste he named umami. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kikunae Ikeda has received more than 227,330 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Kikunae Ikeda is the 255th most popular chemist (up from 256th in 2019), the 323rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 300th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 255 out of 602. Before him are Thomas A. Steitz, Joseph L. Goldstein, Bernard Courtois, Walter Gilbert, Andreas Libavius, and Michael Polanyi. After him are Arieh Warshel, Dudley R. Herschbach, Emil Abderhalden, Michael Smith, Feodor Lynen, and Richard Smalley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 40. Before him are Andrej Hlinka, Ethel Voynich, Draga Mašin, Alfred Redl, John Jacob Astor IV, and Eugen d'Albert. After him are Jakob von Uexküll, Qi Baishi, Joseph Bédier, Séraphine Louis, Alfred Stieglitz, and Tanaka Giichi. Among people deceased in 1936, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 53. Before him are Wilhelm Gustloff, Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Bertha Pappenheim, Duan Qirui, Alexander Berkman, and Carl Stumpf. After him are Saitō Makoto, Anna Boch, Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, Max Schreck, Basil Zaharoff, and Gyula Gömbös.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 323 out of 6,245. Before him are Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Tokugawa Iemochi (1846), Kondō Isami (1834), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), and Nobuyuki Abe (1875). After him are Saitō Makoto (1858), Kakuei Tanaka (1918), Tatsuya Nakadai (1932), Emperor Uda (867), Shoichi Nishimura (1912), and Emperor Ankan (466).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 7. Before him are Akira Suzuki (1930), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), and Ryōji Noyori (1938). After him are Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Takamine Jōkichi (1854), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).

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