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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 181,329 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Koichi Tanaka is the 416th most popular chemist (up from 431st in 2019), the 950th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,004th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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  • 180k

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  • 50.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Koichi Tanaka ranks 416 out of 509. Before him are Asima Chatterjee, Morris Travers, Albert Niemann, Roderick MacKinnon, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, and Eugène-Anatole Demarçay. After him are Kathleen Lonsdale, Eric Betzig, Agnes Pockels, Anders Jahan Retzius, Donella Meadows, and Nils Gabriel Sefström.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Koichi Tanaka ranks 150. Before him are Mauricio Funes, Michel Onfray, Christian Thielemann, Nicole Brown Simpson, Guy Laliberté, and Norm Macdonald. After him are Ildefonso Falcones, The Ultimate Warrior, Kevin Nash, Alexander Lebedev, Baron Waqa, and Ezzaki Badou.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Koichi Tanaka ranks 950 out of 6,048. Before him are Megumi Hayashibara (1967), Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), Shinji Kagawa (1989), Kenji Kawai (1957), Peter Shirayanagi (1928), and Sion Sono (1961). After him are Shigesato Itoi (1948), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Ichiro Suzuki (1973), Uchida Kōsai (1865), Akira Ifukube (1914), and Megumi Torigoe (1950).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Koichi Tanaka ranks 10. Before him are Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Ryōji Noyori (1938), and Akira Yoshino (1948). After him are Masatoshi Shima (1943).

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