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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 133,852 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Masatoshi Shima is the 488th most popular chemist (down from 470th in 2019), the 1,232nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,156th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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  • 48.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Masatoshi Shima ranks 488 out of 602. Before him are William Hallowes Miller, Alfred Stock, Christian Konrad Sprengel, Albert Eschenmoser, Ludwig Mond, and Edmond Frémy. After him are Alwin Mittasch, Adolph Strecker, Heinrich Caro, C. N. R. Rao, Christian Gmelin, and Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Masatoshi Shima ranks 442. Before him are Shinobu Sekine, Susan Clark, Rick Danko, Catherine Cesarsky, Bert Jansch, and Wolfgang Nordwig. After him are Lucius Shepard, Brian Hyland, Xaviera Hollander, Arnaldo Cézar Coelho, Andrej Bajuk, and Jean-Louis Bruguès.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masatoshi Shima ranks 1,232 out of 6,245. Before him are Takefusa Kubo (2001), Toshio Takabayashi (1953), Yasushi Akashi (1931), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), and Wataru Endo (1993). After him are Katsuyoshi Kuwahara (1944), Yoshiko Kuga (1931), Tetsuya Komuro (1958), Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970), Hitoshi Sasaki (1891), and Hiroyuki Usui (1953).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Masatoshi Shima ranks 12. Before him are Ryōji Noyori (1938), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), and Takamine Jōkichi (1854).

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