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Satoshi Ōmura

1935 - Today

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Satoshi Ōmura (大村 智, Ōmura Satoshi, [oːmɯɾa saꜜtoɕi]; born 12 July 1935) is a Japanese biochemist. He is known for the discovery and development of hundreds of pharmaceuticals originally occurring in microorganisms. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell for their role in the discovery of avermectins and ivermectin, the world's first endectocide and a safe and highly effective microfilaricide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Satoshi Ōmura has received more than 322,691 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Satoshi Ōmura is the 158th most popular chemist (up from 284th in 2019), the 166th most popular biography from Japan (up from 443rd in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Chemist.

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  • 49

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  • 4.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Satoshi Ōmura ranks 158 out of 509Before him are Paul Flory, Harry Kroto, George Andrew Olah, John Frederic Daniell, Wilfrid Voynich, and Heinrich Gustav Magnus. After him are Akira Suzuki, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Paul D. Boyer, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Nicolas Leblanc, and Roald Hoffmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Satoshi Ōmura ranks 42Before him are Mirella Freni, Giya Kancheli, David Harvey, Jim Peebles, Jerry Lee Lewis, and William Friedkin. After him are Sylvia Earle, Danilo Kiš, Mylène Demongeot, Wim Duisenberg, Masahito, Prince Hitachi, and Ei-ichi Negishi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Satoshi Ōmura ranks 166 out of 6,048Before him are Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604), Mikao Usui (1865), Emperor Ōjin (210), Kitarō (1953), Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), and Honda Tadakatsu (1548). After him are Emperor Tenji (626), Akira Suzuki (1930), Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Edogawa Ranpo (1894), and Emperor Kanmu (737).

Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Satoshi Ōmura ranks 1After him are Akira Suzuki (1930), Osamu Shimomura (1928), 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).