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Motoo Kimura

1924 - 1994

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Motoo Kimura (木村 資生, Kimura Motō) (November 13, 1924 – November 13, 1994) was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968. He became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticists. He is remembered in genetics for his innovative use of diffusion equations to calculate the probability of fixation of beneficial, deleterious, or neutral alleles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Motoo Kimura has received more than 147,055 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Motoo Kimura is the 301st most popular biologist (down from 286th in 2019), the 698th most popular biography from Japan (down from 671st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Biologist.

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  • 5.58

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Motoo Kimura ranks 301 out of 841. Before him are Jack W. Szostak, Phillip Allen Sharp, Ludwik Fleck, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, Christian Ludwig Brehm, and Lev Berg. After him are Carl Nägeli, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Karl Möbius, James Rothman, Theodor Boveri, and Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Motoo Kimura ranks 143. Before him are Fess Parker, Raymond Barre, Kim Song-ae, Karlheinz Deschner, George Mikan, and Yehuda Amichai. After him are Alexander Matrosov, Marcel Broodthaers, Bayezid Osman, Dinah Washington, Lefter Küçükandonyadis, and Zizi Jeanmaire. Among people deceased in 1994, Motoo Kimura ranks 119. Before him are Christian-Jaque, Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, Claude Akins, Russell Bufalino, Rossano Brazzi, and Vazgen I. After him are Dean Rusk, Elissa Aalto, Aleksandar Petrović, Lindsay Anderson, Massimo Troisi, and Olga Rubtsova.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Motoo Kimura ranks 698 out of 6,048. Before him are Kōdō Sawaki (1880), Akira Nishino (1955), Kazuyo Sejima (1956), Hiroshi Saeki (1936), Iwakura Tomomi (1825), and Kujō Yoritsune (1218). After him are Koji Funamoto (1942), Yoshio Fujiwara (null), Yumi Umeoka (1950), Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662), Arawa Kimura (1931), and Tanzan Ishibashi (1884).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Motoo Kimura ranks 4. Before him are Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), Susumu Tonegawa (1939), and Hideyo Noguchi (1876). After him are Takenoshin Nakai (1882), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Tomitaro Makino (1862), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Tokiharu Abe (1911), and Ryuta Kawashima (1959).

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