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Susumu Tonegawa

1939 - Today

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Susumu Tonegawa (利根川 進, Tonegawa Susumu, born September 5, 1939) is a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Susumu Tonegawa has received more than 258,635 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Susumu Tonegawa is the 151st most popular biologist (down from 140th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from Japan (up from 263rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Biologist.

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  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.57

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  • 4.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 151 out of 841. Before him are Gerald Edelman, Wilhelm Johannsen, Daniel Nathans, Robert Whittaker, Desmond Morris, and Charles Scott Sherrington. After him are Theodor Escherich, John James Audubon, Mario Capecchi, Mikhail Tsvet, J. Michael Bishop, and Jakob von Uexküll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 66. Before him are Fikret Abdić, Carolina Herrera, Beate Klarsfeld, Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Milva, and Kathryn Joosten. After him are Dale T. Mortensen, Eugene Fama, Claudio Magris, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Emil Constantinescu, and Pak Pong-ju.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 240 out of 6,048. Before him are Issey Miyake (1938), Emperor Shōkō (1401), Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Fumihito, Prince Akishino (1965), and Kaoru Ishikawa (1915). After him are Nobuyoshi Araki (1940), Shintaro Ishihara (1932), Mōri Motonari (1497), Emperor Go-Mizunoo (1596), Prince Yasuhiko Asaka (1887), and Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1464).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 2. Before him are Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945). After him are Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Motoo Kimura (1924), Takenoshin Nakai (1882), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Tomitaro Makino (1862), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Tokiharu Abe (1911), and Ryuta Kawashima (1959).

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