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. It is one of the five basic tastes along with sweet, bitter, sour and salty.Ikeda graduated in 1889 from Tokyo Imperial University in chemistry. In 1891, he became a professor at the Higher Normal School of Tokyo, in 1896 he became an associate professor at Tokyo Imperial University. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kikunae Ikeda has received more than 157,249 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Kikunae Ikeda is the 267th most popular chemist, the 391st most popular biography from Japan (down from 323rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Chemist.
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Among chemists, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 267 out of 510. Before him are J. D. Bernal, Alfred G. Gilman, Thomas A. Steitz, Bernard Courtois, Kenichi Fukui, and Charles Adolphe Wurtz. After him are Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Paul L. Modrich, Yuan T. Lee, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Leopold Gmelin, and Hideki Shirakawa.
1901 - 1971
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 261
1941 - 2015
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 262
1940 - 2018
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 263
1777 - 1838
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 264
1918 - 1998
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 265
1817 - 1884
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 266
1864 - 1936
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 267
1722 - 1765
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 268
1946 - Present
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 269
1936 - Present
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 270
1921 - 1996
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 271
1788 - 1853
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 272
1936 - Present
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 273
Among people born in 1864, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 50. Before him are Jakob von Uexküll, Alfred Stieglitz, Franz Oppenheimer, Tanaka Giichi, Soh Jaipil, and Hermann Weingärtner. After him are Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Peter Deunov, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, Isa Boletini, and Carsten Borchgrevink. Among people deceased in 1936, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 57. Before him are Robert E. Howard, Carl Stumpf, Marcel Grossmann, Alexander Berkman, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, and Ramón del Valle-Inclán. After him are Max Schreck, Edward Bach, Saitō Makoto, Mikhail Tomsky, Takahashi Korekiyo, and Anna Boch.
1864 - 1944
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 44
1864 - 1946
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 45
1864 - 1943
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 46
1864 - 1929
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 47
1864 - 1951
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 48
1864 - 1919
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 49
1864 - 1936
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 50
1864 - 1937
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 51
1864 - 1944
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 52
1864 - 1958
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 53
1864 - 1931
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 54
1864 - 1916
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 55
1864 - 1934
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 56
1906 - 1936
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 51
1848 - 1936
HPI: 68.22
Rank: 52
1878 - 1936
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 53
1870 - 1936
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 54
1873 - 1936
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 55
1866 - 1936
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 56
1864 - 1936
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 57
1879 - 1936
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 58
1886 - 1936
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 59
1858 - 1936
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 60
1880 - 1936
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 61
1854 - 1936
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 62
1848 - 1936
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 63
Among people born in Japan, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 391 out of 5,560. Before him are Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653), Kondō Isami (1834), Hifuyo Uchida (null), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Uichiro Hatta (1903), and Saitō Hajime (1844). After him are Emperor Konoe (1139), Emperor Go-Sanjō (1032), Motoo Tatsuhara (1913), Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), Yosano Akiko (1878), and Hiroshi Saeki (1936).
1653 - 1725
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 385
1834 - 1868
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 386
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 387
1918 - 1998
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 388
1903 - 1989
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 389
1844 - 1915
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 390
1864 - 1936
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 391
1139 - 1155
HPI: 67.40
Rank: 392
1032 - 1073
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 393
1913 - 1984
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 394
1891 - 1945
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 395
1878 - 1942
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 396
1936 - Present
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 397
Among chemists born in Japan, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 5. Before him are Akira Suzuki (1930), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), and Kenichi Fukui (1918). After him are Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).
1930 - Present
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 1
1928 - 2018
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 2
1915 - 1989
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 3
1918 - 1998
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 4
1864 - 1936
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 5
1936 - Present
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 6
1938 - Present
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 7
1935 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 8
1948 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 9
1959 - Present
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 11