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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 85,870 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Shinobu Ishihara is the 473rd most popular physician (down from 427th in 2019), the 1,034th most popular biography from Japan (down from 978th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 473 out of 502Before him are Richard Bright, Antonio Scarpa, Antonio Bertoloni, Anastasia Golovina, Luca Ghini, and Constantin von Economo. After him are Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, Benjamin Rush, Carlo Urbani, Serenus Sammonicus, Wladimir Aïtoff, and Julius Friedrich Cohnheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 138Before him are Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, Petros Persakis, Ruth St. Denis, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Martin Mutschmann, and Eugène Lanti. After him are Cyril Scott, Wladimir Aïtoff, Will Rogers, Ellen Gleditsch, Joseph Avenol, and Rafael Erich. Among people deceased in 1963, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 115Before him are Erich Ollenhauer, Melville J. Herskovits, Benny Moré, Mary Agnes Chase, Hugh O'Flaherty, and Barnum Brown. After him are Marie Marvingt, Wladimir Aïtoff, Ulises Saucedo, John Farrow, Aleksandr Gerasimov, and Louis Bastien.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 1,034 out of 6,048Before him are Hiro Mashima (1977), Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Kinue Hitomi (1907), Yukio Kasaya (1943), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), and Yoshiki Tanaka (1952). After him are Keizo Imai (1950), Tōru Furuya (1953), Ryozo Suzuki (1939), Tadao Onishi (1943), Sumio Iijima (1939), and Masayuki Mori (1911).

Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Shinobu Ishihara ranks 12Before him are Kusumoto Ine (1827), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Hiraga Gennai (1728), Sunao Tawara (1873), and Kyusaku Ogino (1882). After him are Akira Endo (1933) and Yoshioka Yayoi (1871).