CHEMIST

Ryōji Noyori

1938 - Today

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Ryōji Noyori (野依 良治, Noyori Ryōji, born September 3, 1938) is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ryōji Noyori has received more than 159,088 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Ryōji Noyori is the 244th most popular chemist (up from 283rd in 2019), the 303rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 409th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ryōji Noyori ranks 244 out of 602. Before him are Henri Victor Regnault, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Mária Telkes, William Hyde Wollaston, Elias James Corey, and Thomas Graham. After him are William C. Campbell, Paul Lauterbur, Ida Noddack, Sidney Altman, Thomas A. Steitz, and Joseph L. Goldstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Ryōji Noyori ranks 91. Before him are Tereza Kesovija, Leonardo Boff, Roland Topor, J. J. Cale, Ricardo Lagos, and Nabih Berri. After him are Phil Knight, Giuliano Amato, Juliet Anderson, Frank Langella, Eddie Cochran, and Georg Baselitz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ryōji Noyori ranks 303 out of 6,245. Before him are Chūya Nakahara (1907), Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Maeda Toshiie (1538), Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887), Empress Masako (1963), and Akira Kitaguchi (1935). After him are Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1442), Emperor Sushun (520), Empress Teimei (1884), Ikkyū (1394), Nobuyoshi Araki (1940), and Saitō Hajime (1844).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Ryōji Noyori ranks 6. Before him are Akira Suzuki (1930), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), and Hideki Shirakawa (1936). After him are Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Takamine Jōkichi (1854), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).

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