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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 778,163 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Shinya Yamanaka is the 324th most popular physician (up from 390th in 2019), the 708th most popular biography from Japan (up from 869th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Physician.

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  • 53

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  • 3.84

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  • 4.71

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Shinya Yamanaka ranks 324 out of 502Before him are Titus Brandsma, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Max Heindel, Irmfried Eberl, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, and Pierre Fauchard. After him are Alessandro Achillini, William Chester Minor, Louis de Jaucourt, Filippo Pacini, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and James Curtis Hepburn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Shinya Yamanaka ranks 79Before him are Matt Cameron, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Jordan Peterson, Alain Robert, Clark Gregg, and Gina Gershon. After him are Sebastian Koch, Sheryl Crow, Patrick Ewing, Marty Friedman, Julio Salinas, and Anthony Edwards.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shinya Yamanaka ranks 708 out of 6,048Before him are Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662), Arawa Kimura (1931), Tanzan Ishibashi (1884), Kanō Eitoku (1543), Torii Kiyonaga (1752), and Hakuin Ekaku (1686). After him are Kyōka Izumi (1873), Takehiko Kawanishi (1938), Keigo Higashino (1958), Emperor En'yū (959), Eiji Toyoda (1913), and Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931).

Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Shinya Yamanaka ranks 4Before him are Shirō Ishii (1892), Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), and Hakaru Hashimoto (1881). After him are Tasuku Honjo (1942), Kusumoto Ine (1827), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Hiraga Gennai (1728), Sunao Tawara (1873), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), and Shinobu Ishihara (1879).