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Ted Fujita

1920 - 1998

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Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (; FOO-jee-tah) (藤田 哲也, Fujita Tetsuya, October 23, 1920 – November 19, 1998) was a Japanese American meteorologist whose research primarily focused on severe weather. His research at the University of Chicago on severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons revolutionized the knowledge of each. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ted Fujita has received more than 407,239 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Ted Fujita is the 585th most popular physicist (up from 636th in 2019), the 1,092nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,173rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ted Fujita ranks 585 out of 717Before him are Artem Alikhanian, Frank J. Tipler, C. P. Snow, Gordon Gould, Isaak Khalatnikov, and Alexander Markovich Polyakov. After him are Bill Nye, John D. Barrow, John Robison, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Georges-Louis Le Sage, and Giovanni Giorgi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Ted Fujita ranks 267Before him are Franjo Mihalić, Henry Eriksson, Bruno Ruffo, Richard N. Frye, Gordon Gould, and Georges Balandier. After him are Frances Ames, Julian Jaynes, Alfredo II, André Simon, Olga Orozco, and Raisa Aronova. Among people deceased in 1998, Ted Fujita ranks 184Before him are Jafar Sharif-Emami, Władysław Komar, António Ribeiro, Mary Millar, Johannes Kotkas, and Rob Pilatus. After him are William Gaddis, Bobo Brazil, Gottfried Dienst, Kim Ki-young, Héctor Vilches, and Consalvo Sanesi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ted Fujita ranks 1,092 out of 6,048Before him are Hiroshi Abe (1964), Masayoshi Ito (1913), Masakatsu Miyamoto (1938), Shigefumi Mori (1951), Masi Oka (1974), and Hajime Isayama (1986). After him are Takeshi Okada (1956), Yumi Matsutoya (1954), Takako Doi (1928), Koji Kondo (1961), Miyoshi Umeki (1929), and Tsukasa Hojo (1959).

Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Ted Fujita ranks 16Before him are Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), and Sumio Iijima (1939). After him are Toshiko Yuasa (1909) and Shoichi Sakata (1911).