PHYSICIST

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga

1906 - 1979

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Shinichiro Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎, Tomonaga Shin'ichirō, March 31, 1906 – July 8, 1979), usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shin'ichirō Tomonaga has received more than 275,445 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Shin'ichirō Tomonaga is the 170th most popular physicist (up from 207th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Japan (up from 135th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Physicist.

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga is most famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, specifically the Tomonaga-Schwinger equation.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 170 out of 851. Before him are Kai Siegbahn, Zhores Alferov, Igor Kurchatov, Gerd Binnig, Joseph Rotblat, and Melvin Schwartz. After him are Hans Georg Dehmelt, George E. Smith, Tsung-Dao Lee, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Emilio Segrè, and Polykarp Kusch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 40. Before him are Léon Degrelle, Hans Asperger, Josef Kramer, Klaus Mann, Wassily Leontief, and Dino Buzzati. After him are Albert Sabin, Vladimir Prelog, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marcel Carné, Clyde Tombaugh, and Oleg Antonov. Among people deceased in 1979, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 21. Before him are Jean Seberg, Mustafa Barzani, Nelson Rockefeller, Sonia Delaunay, Hafizullah Amin, and Hanna Reitsch. After him are Nadia Boulanger, Sid Vicious, Werner Forssmann, Bertil Ohlin, Robert Burns Woodward, and Nur Muhammad Taraki.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 86 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Annei (-577), Jiro Horikoshi (1903), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Yoshihide Suga (1948), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), and Himiko (175). After him are Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Joe Hisaishi (1950), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Kōbō Abe (1924), and Kūkai (774).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 3. Before him are Isamu Akasaki (1929), and Hideki Yukawa (1907). After him are Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Yoshio Nishina (1890), and Hiroshi Amano (1960).

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