1864 - 1936
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 211,036 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Kikunae Ikeda is the 256th most popular chemist (up from 267th in 2019), the 302nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 391st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Chemist.
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Among chemists, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 256 out of 509. Before him are Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Thomas Graham, Karl Barry Sharpless, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, and Geoffrey Wilkinson. After him are Martin Karplus, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Roger D. Kornberg, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, and Emil Abderhalden.
1817 - 1884
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 250
1805 - 1869
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 251
1941 - Present
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 252
1698 - 1739
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 253
1722 - 1765
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 254
1921 - 1996
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 255
1864 - 1936
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 256
1930 - Present
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 257
1858 - 1929
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 258
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 259
1799 - 1868
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 260
1822 - 1882
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 261
1877 - 1950
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 262
Among people born in 1864, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 48. Before him are Eugen d'Albert, Jakob von Uexküll, Qi Baishi, Peter Deunov, Robert E. Park, and Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia. After him are Franz Oppenheimer, Soh Jaipil, Tanaka Giichi, Anagarika Dharmapala, Ahmed Izzet Pasha, and Roman Dmowski. Among people deceased in 1936, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 53. Before him are José Sanjurjo, Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, Bertha Pappenheim, Duan Qirui, Marcel Grossmann, and Max Schreck. After him are Basil Zaharoff, Carl Stumpf, Mikhail Tomsky, Edward Bach, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, and Saitō Makoto.
1864 - 1932
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 42
1864 - 1944
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 43
1864 - 1957
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 44
1864 - 1944
HPI: 58.74
Rank: 45
1864 - 1944
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 46
1864 - 1931
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 47
1864 - 1936
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 48
1864 - 1943
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 49
1864 - 1951
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 50
1864 - 1929
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 51
1864 - 1933
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 52
1864 - 1937
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 53
1864 - 1939
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 54
1872 - 1936
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 47
1849 - 1936
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 48
1859 - 1936
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 49
1865 - 1936
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 50
1878 - 1936
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 51
1879 - 1936
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 52
1864 - 1936
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 53
1849 - 1936
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 54
1848 - 1936
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 55
1880 - 1936
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 56
1886 - 1936
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 57
1873 - 1936
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 58
1858 - 1936
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 59
Among people born in Japan, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 302 out of 6,048. Before him are Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358), Yoshitoshi (1839), Chūya Nakahara (1907), Takeichi Nishi (1902), Tokugawa Iemochi (1846), and Tamotsu Asakura (null). After him are Takashi Kano (1920), Emperor Buretsu (489), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), Toshiki Kaifu (1931), Shozo Tsugitani (1940), and Jiro Miyake (1900).
1358 - 1408
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 296
1839 - 1892
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 297
1907 - 1937
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 298
1902 - 1945
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 299
1846 - 1866
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 300
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 301
1864 - 1936
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 302
1920 - 2000
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 303
489 - 507
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 304
1879 - 1946
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 305
1931 - 2022
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 306
1940 - 1978
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 307
1900 - 1984
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 308
Among chemists born in Japan, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 5. Before him are Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Akira Suzuki (1930), Osamu Shimomura (1928), and Kaoru Ishikawa (1915). After him are Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Kenichi Fukui (1918), 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