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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 251,736 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Shin'ichirō Tomonaga is the 207th most popular physicist (down from 173rd in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Japan (down from 94th in 2019) and the 4th 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 207 out of 717. Before him are David Lee, Joseph Rotblat, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Armen Sarkissian, Roy J. Glauber, and Kai Siegbahn. After him are Herbert Kroemer, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Simon van der Meer, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Max Delbrück.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 54. Before him are Clyde Tombaugh, Bugsy Siegel, Klaus Mann, Estée Lauder, Marcel Carné, and Ernst Chain. After him are Empress Wanrong, Albert Sabin, Max Delbrück, Ettore Majorana, Vera Menchik, and James Hadley Chase. Among people deceased in 1979, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 34. Before him are Rachele Mussolini, Robert Burns Woodward, Ernst Chain, Agostinho Neto, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Francisco Macías Nguema. After him are Peggy Guggenheim, Mary Pickford, Pier Luigi Nervi, Nicholas Ray, Edvard Kardelj, and Louis Chiron.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 135 out of 6,048. Before him are Momofuku Ando (1910), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Issei Sagawa (1949), Sakichi Toyoda (1867), Emperor Suinin (-69), and Junko Tabei (1939). After him are Taira no Kiyomori (1118), Kunishige Kamamoto (1944), Emperor Go-Daigo (1288), Emperor Kōgen (-272), Emperor Sakuramachi (1720), and Mitsuo Fuchida (1902).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 4. Before him are Hideki Yukawa (1907), Syukuro Manabe (1931), and Isamu Akasaki (1929). After him are Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Leo Esaki (1925), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), and Yoshio Nishina (1890).

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