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Sumio Iijima

1939 - Today

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Sumio Iijima (飯島 澄男, Iijima Sumio, born 2 May 1939) is a Japanese physicist and inventor, often cited as the inventor of carbon nanotubes. Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his "invention", Iijima's 1991 paper generated unprecedented interest in the carbon nanostructures and has since fueled intense research in the area of nanotechnology. Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1939, Iijima graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1963 from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. He received a Master's degree in 1965 and completed his Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sumio Iijima has received more than 136,008 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Sumio Iijima is the 622nd most popular physicist (down from 559th in 2019), the 1,191st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,036th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sumio Iijima ranks 622 out of 851. Before him are Mario Livio, Grote Reber, Walther Müller, Brian Greene, John Lennard-Jones, and Lawrence M. Krauss. After him are Georges-Louis Le Sage, Norris Bradbury, Michael Green, Antonius van den Broek, Leo Kadanoff, and Walter Kaufmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Sumio Iijima ranks 362. Before him are Trịnh Công Sơn, James Mancham, Viktor Sadovnichiy, László Kovács, Allen Garfield, and Osvaldo Hurtado. After him are Alessandra Panaro, Conny Andersson, Barney McKenna, Günter Bernard, John Negroponte, and Carolee Schneemann.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sumio Iijima ranks 1,191 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiro Mashima (1977), Megumi Yokota (1964), Sadakazu Tanigaki (1945), Jinzō Matsumura (1856), Mazie Hirono (1947), and Satoshi Yamaguchi (1959). After him are Iccho Itoh (1945), Kinue Hitomi (1907), Mikio Oda (1905), Minami Takayama (1964), Shoko Hamada (1950), and Shirō Sagisu (1957).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Sumio Iijima ranks 16. Before him are Shuji Nakamura (1954), Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), and Toshiko Yuasa (1909). After him are Shoichi Sakata (1911), Ted Fujita (1920), Yoshiaki Arata (1924), and Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926).

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