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Shoichi Sakata

1911 - 1970

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Shoichi Sakata (坂田 昌一, Sakata Shōichi, 18 January 1911 – 16 October 1970) was a Japanese physicist and Marxist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the subatomic particles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shoichi Sakata has received more than 50,970 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Shoichi Sakata is the 665th most popular physicist (down from 649th in 2019), the 1,273rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,219th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Shoichi Sakata ranks 665 out of 851. Before him are Hans Reissner, Mordehai Milgrom, Paul Peter Ewald, Christian Møller, Charles H. Bennett, and Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels. After him are Ted Fujita, William Astbury, C. V. Boys, Balthasar van der Pol, Sulamith Goldhaber, and Ash Carter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Shoichi Sakata ranks 268. Before him are Leslie Graham, Bill Monroe, C. L. Moore, Matthias Kaburek, Reidar Andersen, and Jean Cayrol. After him are Alfred Manessier, Nikolai Baibakov, Szilárd Bogdánffy, Zoltán Beke, Álvaro Cunqueiro, and Alberto Galateo. Among people deceased in 1970, Shoichi Sakata ranks 196. Before him are Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, Janko Alexy, Hélène Sparrow, Ludovico Bidoglio, Vano Muradeli, and István Fekete. After him are David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Valerio Arri, Cyril Scott, Andrejs Upīts, and Gypsy Rose Lee.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shoichi Sakata ranks 1,273 out of 6,245. Before him are Junichi Suwabe (1972), Satoshi Furukawa (1964), Osamu Watanabe (1940), Chūhei Nambu (1904), Nobuyo Fujishiro (1960), and Keiko Takemiya (1950). After him are Ted Fujita (1920), Akira Endo (1933), Masakazu Katsura (1962), Akie Abe (1962), Sola Aoi (1983), and Tamlyn Tomita (1966).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Shoichi Sakata ranks 17. Before him are Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), and Sumio Iijima (1939). After him are Ted Fujita (1920), Yoshiaki Arata (1924), and Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926).

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