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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 179,691 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Koichi Tanakas by language

Over the past year Koichi Tanaka has had the most page views in the with 77,217 views, followed by Chinese (17,473), and English (16,212). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are French (489.35%), Hakka (325.33%), and Hebrew (104.02%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Koichi Tanaka ranks 375 out of 602Before 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 115Before 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 6,245Before 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).

Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Koichi Tanaka ranks 10Before 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).