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Masatoshi Shima

1943 - Today

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Masatoshi Shima (嶋 正利, Shima Masatoshi, born August 22, 1943, Shizuoka) is a Japanese electronics engineer. He was one of the architects of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. In 1968, Shima worked for Busicom in Japan, and did the logic design for a specialized CPU to be translated into three-chip custom chips. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masatoshi Shima has received more than 122,633 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Masatoshi Shima is the 471st most popular chemist (down from 470th in 2019), the 1,159th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,116th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Chemist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Masatoshi Shima ranks 471 out of 509Before him are Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Jan Szczepanik, James B. Conant, Heinrich Rose, and Carl Theodore Liebermann. After him are John Mayow, Michael Behe, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Juan José Elhuyar, Heinrich Caro, and Neil Bartlett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Masatoshi Shima ranks 411Before him are Boediono, Pim Doesburg, Peter Carey, Harry Shearer, Antonio Juliano, and Michael Stonebraker. After him are Hélène Vincent, Dante Spinotti, Sam Hinds, Brian Hyland, Miguel Ángel Revilla, and Lubomir Kavalek.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masatoshi Shima ranks 1,159 out of 6,048Before him are Shinichirō Watanabe (1965), Izumi Sakai (1967), Kenjirō Tokutomi (1868), Kazuo Hasegawa (1908), Ikuo Matsumoto (1941), and Hiromi Kawakami (1958). After him are Kikuko Inoue (1964), Takayuki Kuwata (1941), Shōhei Ōoka (1909), Yoshinori Shigematsu (1930), LiSA (1987), and Ryo Kawasaki (1947).

Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Masatoshi Shima ranks 11Before him are Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Akira Yoshino (1948), and Koichi Tanaka (1959).