CHEMIST

Koichi Tanaka

1959 - Today

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Koichi Tanaka (田中 耕一, Tanaka Kōichi, born August 3, 1959) is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt Wüthrich (the latter for work in NMR spectroscopy). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Koichi Tanaka has received more than 193,217 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Koichi Tanaka is the 375th most popular chemist (up from 416th in 2019), the 769th most popular biography from Japan (up from 947th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Koichi Tanaka ranks 375 out of 602. Before him are Edward Calvin Kendall, Hugo Erdmann, Kazimierz Fajans, Peter Waage, Morten P. Meldal, and Auguste Laurent. After him are Rashad Khalifa, Hermann von Fehling, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Louis Le Chatelier, Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, and Jacques Bergier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Koichi Tanaka ranks 115. Before him are Baron Waqa, Anatoly Onoprienko, Andrew Fire, Thomas Ravelli, James Wong, and Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior. After him are Marcus Miller, Ralf Moeller, Alessandro Nannini, Pietro Vierchowod, Massimo Bonini, and John C. McGinley.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Koichi Tanaka ranks 769 out of 6,245. Before him are Isao Inokuma (1938), Masao Takada (null), Tadao Kobayashi (1930), Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), Prince Munetaka (1242), and Matsudaira Katamori (1836). After him are Shō Hashi (1371), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), Motoo Tatsuhara (1913), Banana Yoshimoto (1964), Kengo Kuma (1954), and Koji Sasaki (1936).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Koichi Tanaka ranks 10. Before him are Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), and Akira Yoshino (1948). After him are Takamine Jōkichi (1854), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).

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