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Shinobu Ishihara

1879 - 1963

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Shinobu Ishihara (石原 忍, Ishihara Shinobu, September 25, 1879 – January 3, 1963) was a Japanese ophthalmologist who created the Ishihara color test to detect colour blindness. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shinobu Ishihara has received more than 93,621 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Shinobu Ishihara is the 416th most popular physician (up from 472nd in 2019), the 914th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,031st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 416 out of 726. Before him are René Favaloro, Kusumoto Ine, Adrien Proust, Scipione Riva-Rocci, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, and Luigi Carlo Farini. After him are Harvey Cushing, Luca Ghini, José Gregorio Hernández, Helen B. Taussig, Wilhelm Stekel, and David Cooper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 112. Before him are Petar Živković, Joe Hill, Frank Bridge, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Gorazd, and Vittorio Ambrosio. After him are Alan Gardiner, Friedrich Christiansen, Ion G. Duca, Clemente Micara, Wallace Stevens, and Joseph Canteloube. Among people deceased in 1963, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 96. Before him are Ivan Bek, Otto Struve, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Fernando Tambroni, Maria Tănase, and Patsy Cline. After him are Alan Gardiner, Adrian Carton de Wiart, Barnum Brown, Lee Wallard, Richard Oswald, and André Maschinot.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 914 out of 6,245. Before him are Konoe Sakihisa (1536), Naomi Osaka (1997), Haruomi Hosono (1947), Saigō Jūdō (1843), Shigeru Takahashi (null), and Takenoshin Nakai (1882). After him are Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570), Ryuzo Hiraki (1931), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950), Toyohito Mochizuki (1953), Ozaki Kōyō (1868), and Naoya Shiga (1883).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 8. Before him are Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Tasuku Honjo (1942), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Shinya Yamanaka (1962), Hiraga Gennai (1728), and Kusumoto Ine (1827). After him are Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), Sunao Tawara (1873), Yoshioka Yayoi (1871), and Kei Okami (1859).

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