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Syukuro Manabe

1931 - Today

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Syukuro "Suki" Manabe (真鍋 淑郎, Manabe Shukurō, born 21 September 1931) is a Japanese–American physicist, meteorologist, and climatologist, who pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Syukuro Manabe has received more than 309,504 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Syukuro Manabe is the 260th most popular physicist (down from 168th in 2019), the 172nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 87th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Syukuro Manabe ranks 260 out of 851. Before him are Charles Wheatstone, Masatoshi Koshiba, Philip Warren Anderson, David Brewster, Otto Robert Frisch, and Rainer Weiss. After him are Max Delbrück, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Julian Schwinger, John Cockcroft, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, and Daniel Rutherford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Syukuro Manabe ranks 61. Before him are James Earl Jones, Klaus Hasselmann, Viktor Korchnoi, Ettore Scola, Stanislav Grof, and Sofia Gubaidulina. After him are Ivan Rebroff, Arata Isozaki, Richard F. Heck, Ike Turner, Rita Moreno, and Jean-Claude Carrière.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Syukuro Manabe ranks 172 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Kaika (-208), Emperor Tenmu (631), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), Emperor Suinin (-69), and Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918). After him are Yasuo Fukuda (1936), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), Arata Isozaki (1931), Yohji Yamamoto (1943), and Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Syukuro Manabe ranks 7. Before him are Isamu Akasaki (1929), Hideki Yukawa (1907), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), and Masatoshi Koshiba (1926). After him are Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hiroshi Amano (1960), and Takaaki Kajita (1959).

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