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Osamu Shimomura

1928 - 2018

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Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩, Shimomura Osamu, August 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018) was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and professor emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Osamu Shimomura has received more than 217,050 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. Osamu Shimomura is the 216th most popular chemist (down from 214th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from Japan (up from 273rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Chemist.

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  • 220k

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  • 59.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Osamu Shimomura ranks 216 out of 509. Before him are Feodor Lynen, Alexander R. Todd, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Derek Barton, Aziz Sancar, and Elias James Corey. After him are Kaoru Ishikawa, Jacques Dubochet, Leo Baekeland, Michael Smith, Arieh Warshel, and John Pople.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Osamu Shimomura ranks 80. Before him are Borisav Jović, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Colin Chapman, Sara Montiel, Gustav Leonhardt, and Elias James Corey. After him are Daniel Nathans, Desmond Morris, Wolfgang von Trips, Marco Ferreri, Gene Sharp, and Gaston Thorn. Among people deceased in 2018, Osamu Shimomura ranks 58. Before him are Reynaldo Bignone, Gérard Genette, Dolores O'Riordan, Shoko Asahara, Sondra Locke, and Wim Kok. After him are Gene Sharp, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Steve Ditko, Dorothy Malone, and Anthony Bourdain.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Osamu Shimomura ranks 237 out of 6,048. Before him are Nogi Maresuke (1849), Go Nagai (1945), Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927), Issey Miyake (1938), Emperor Shōkō (1401), and Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887). After him are Fumihito, Prince Akishino (1965), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Susumu Tonegawa (1939), Nobuyoshi Araki (1940), Shintaro Ishihara (1932), and Mōri Motonari (1497).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Osamu Shimomura ranks 3. Before him are Satoshi Ōmura (1935) and Akira Suzuki (1930). After him are Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).

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