1943 - Today
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.
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Among chemists, Masatoshi Shima ranks 471 out of 509. Before 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.
1731 - 1799
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 465
1893 - 1970
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 466
1872 - 1926
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 467
1893 - 1978
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 468
1795 - 1864
HPI: 46.88
Rank: 469
1842 - 1914
HPI: 46.84
Rank: 470
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.71
Rank: 471
1640 - 1679
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 472
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.57
Rank: 473
1824 - 1898
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 474
1754 - 1796
HPI: 46.52
Rank: 475
1834 - 1910
HPI: 46.33
Rank: 476
1932 - 2008
HPI: 46.32
Rank: 477
Among people born in 1943, Masatoshi Shima ranks 411. Before 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.
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 405
1943 - 2020
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 406
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.84
Rank: 407
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 408
1943 - 2023
HPI: 46.76
Rank: 409
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.76
Rank: 410
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.71
Rank: 411
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.69
Rank: 412
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.67
Rank: 413
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 414
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 415
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.56
Rank: 416
1943 - 2021
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 417
Among people born in Japan, Masatoshi Shima ranks 1,159 out of 6,048. Before 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).
1965 - Present
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 1,153
1967 - 2007
HPI: 46.84
Rank: 1,154
1868 - 1927
HPI: 46.82
Rank: 1,155
1908 - 1984
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 1,156
1941 - Present
HPI: 46.75
Rank: 1,157
1958 - Present
HPI: 46.73
Rank: 1,158
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.71
Rank: 1,159
1964 - Present
HPI: 46.70
Rank: 1,160
1941 - Present
HPI: 46.66
Rank: 1,161
1909 - 1988
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 1,162
1930 - Present
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 1,163
1987 - Present
HPI: 46.57
Rank: 1,164
1947 - 2020
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 1,165
Among chemists born in Japan, Masatoshi Shima ranks 11. Before him are Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Akira Yoshino (1948), and Koichi Tanaka (1959).
1864 - 1936
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 5
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 6
1918 - 1998
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 7
1938 - Present
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 8
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 9
1959 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.71
Rank: 11