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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 146,442 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Ryōji Noyori is the 283rd most popular chemist, the 411th most popular biography from Japan (up from 439th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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  • 150k

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  • 57.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ryōji Noyori ranks 283 out of 509Before him are William Henry, Torbern Bergman, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Bernard Courtois, Richard J. Roberts, and S. P. L. Sørensen. After him are Hartmut Michel, Georg Brandt, Andreas Libavius, William C. Campbell, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, and Rasmus Bartholin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Ryōji Noyori ranks 108Before him are Larry Scott, Ed Lauter, Jean-Claude Mézières, Tereza Kesovija, Ted Turner, and Cabu. After him are Guy Roux, Keith O'Brien, Girish Karnad, Morihiro Hosokawa, Lill-Babs, and Willy Claes.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ryōji Noyori ranks 411 out of 6,048Before him are Kinjiro Shimizu (null), Shumpei Inoue (null), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Masuzo Madono (null), Michiyo Taki (null), and Nagayasu Honda (null). After him are Enomoto Takeaki (1836), Takeo Kurita (1889), Konishi Yukinaga (1555), Saburo Shinosaki (null), Ishirō Honda (1911), and Noboru Takeshita (1924).

Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Ryōji Noyori ranks 8Before him are Akira Suzuki (1930), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), and Kenichi Fukui (1918). After him are Akira Yoshino (1948), Koichi Tanaka (1959), and Masatoshi Shima (1943).