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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. In 1969, he worked with Intel's Ted Hoff and Stanley Mazor to reduce the three-chip Busicom proposal into a one-chip architecture. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Masatoshi Shima is the 482nd most popular chemist (up from 488th in 2024), the 1,181st most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,232nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Masatoshi Shima ranks 482 out of 602. Before him are K. C. Nicolaou, John Mayow, Carl Theodore Liebermann, David Baker, Yellapragada Subbarow, and Phoebus Levene. After him are Christopher Kelk Ingold, Ivan Horbachevsky, Archibald Scott Couper, Alwin Mittasch, William Nicholson, and Allen J. Bard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Masatoshi Shima ranks 405. Before him are Steve Clark, Serge Lama, Ingrid Gulbin, Niles Eldredge, Marilynne Robinson, and Mike Bloomfield. After him are Catherine Cesarsky, Christl Haas, Leslie Uggams, Sharon Gless, Dante Ferretti, and Larry Coryell.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masatoshi Shima ranks 1,181 out of 6,245. Before him are Kusuo Kitamura (1917), Kanno Sugako (1881), Tsuru Aoki (1892), Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928), Bunzō Hayata (1874), and Seiko Matsuda (1962). After him are Makino Nobuaki (1861), Masuyo Shiraishi (1963), Hiratsuka Raichō (1886), Megumi Hayashibara (1967), Yuki Kajiura (1965), and Isuzu Yamada (1917).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Masatoshi Shima ranks 11. Before him are Ryōji Noyori (1938), Akira Yoshino (1948), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), and Koichi Tanaka (1959). After him are Takamine Jōkichi (1854).

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