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Shinya Yamanaka

1962 - Today

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Shinya Yamanaka (山中 伸弥, Yamanaka Shin'ya, born September 4, 1962) is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application, Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shinya Yamanaka has received more than 845,193 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Shinya Yamanaka is the 347th most popular physician (down from 324th in 2019), the 746th most popular biography from Japan (down from 706th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Physician.

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  • 60.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Shinya Yamanaka ranks 347 out of 726. Before him are Thomas Szasz, James Braid, Max Heindel, Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky, Anthony Fauci, and Ibn Abi Usaibia. After him are Louis de Jaucourt, Johann Peter Frank, Anders Chydenius, Ernest Duchesne, Ewald Hering, and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Shinya Yamanaka ranks 96. Before him are Tommy Lee, Jordan Peterson, Abdulla Aripov, John Stockton, Anthony Edwards, and Tomoyasu Asaoka. After him are Tsutomu Miyazaki, Hillel Slovak, Danny Huston, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Galina Chistyakova, and Cary Elwes.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shinya Yamanaka ranks 746 out of 6,245. Before him are Torii Kiyonaga (1752), Kōdō Sawaki (1880), Ōtomo Sōrin (1530), Okakura Kakuzō (1862), Koichi Oita (1914), and Tomoyasu Asaoka (1962). After him are Tsutomu Miyazaki (1962), Eiji Toyoda (1913), Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Prince Hisaaki (1276), Seichō Matsumoto (1909), and Atsuko Ikeda (1931).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Shinya Yamanaka ranks 5. Before him are Shirō Ishii (1892), Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Tasuku Honjo (1942), and Hakaru Hashimoto (1881). After him are Hiraga Gennai (1728), Kusumoto Ine (1827), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), and Sunao Tawara (1873).

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