Biologist

Susumu Tonegawa

Japanese biologist

1939 - 2026

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His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2024). Susumu Tonegawa is the 157th most popular biologist (up from 163rd in 2024), the 203rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 276th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Biologist. Learn more about Susumu Tonegawa's academic impact at Rankless.

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#203 / 6,943

Susumu Tonegawa ranks #203 among 6,943 people in Pantheon born in Japan, inside the top 3% of that group.

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Susumu Tonegawa climbed 2,109 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #13,815 to #11,717.

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Susumu Tonegawa's biography appears in 57 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 93% of all Biologists.

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Among Biologists

Among biologists, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 157 out of 1,121. Before him are Joshua Lederberg, Bernard Katz, Thomas Huckle Weller, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Martin Chalfie, and Jakob von Uexküll. After him are Nettie Stevens, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Salvador Luria, George Davis Snell, Renato Dulbecco, and Mario Capecchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 53. Before him are Michael Cimino, Sonny Chiba, Ray Manzarek, Volker Schlöndorff, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, and Stanisław Dziwisz. After him are Leland H. Hartwell, Alfredo Palacio, Carlo Ginzburg, Beate Klarsfeld, Henry Mintzberg, and Ion Țiriac. Among people deceased in 2026, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 35. Before him are Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, Anthony James Leggett, Birutė Galdikas, Edgar Morin, and Siim Kallas. After him are Hideki Shirakawa, Lionel Jospin, Carlo Ginzburg, Kevin Keegan, Catherine O'Hara, and Georg Baselitz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 203 out of 6,943. Before him are Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), Takeshi Inoue (1928), Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Junji Kawano (1945), and Takeo Wakabayashi (1907). After him are Kitarō (1953), Shozo Tsugitani (1940), Emperor Richū (336), Shiro Azumi (null), Emperor Kaika (-208), and Kazuyoshi Miura (1967).

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Among Biologists In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 2. Before him is Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945). After him are Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Takenoshin Nakai (1882), Motoo Kimura (1924), Akira Endo (1933), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Tomitaro Makino (1862), Akira Miyawaki (1928), and Tokiharu Abe (1911).

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