BIOLOGIST

Tomitaro Makino

1862 - 1957

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Tomitaro Makino (牧野 富太郎, Makino Tomitarō, April 24, 1862 – January 18, 1957) was a pioneer Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work. He has been called "Father of Japanese Botany", having been one of the first Japanese botanists to work extensively on classifying Japanese plants using the system developed by Linnaeus. His research resulted in documenting 50,000 specimens, many of which are represented in his Makino's Illustrated Flora of Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomitaro Makino has received more than 53,994 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Tomitaro Makino is the 212th most popular biologist (up from 564th in 2019), the 450th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,048th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Tomitaro Makino ranks 212 out of 1,097. Before him are Pierre Belon, Mikhail Tsvet, Friedrich Parrot, Johann Reinhold Forster, Thomas Browne, and Wilbur Scoville. After him are Joseph Banks, Hans Driesch, Hideyo Noguchi, Michael W. Young, Desmond Morris, and Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Tomitaro Makino ranks 44. Before him are Vito Cascio Ferro, August Oetker, Georges Feydeau, Ugyen Wangchuck, Aurel Stein, and Leonid Pasternak. After him are René Viviani, Théo van Rysselberghe, Infanta María de la Paz of Spain, Anton Ažbe, Cao Kun, and Oswald Külpe. Among people deceased in 1957, Tomitaro Makino ranks 67. Before him are Louis B. Mayer, Rezső Kasztner, Arnold van Gennep, Theodor Körner, Pedro Infante, and Shoghi Effendi. After him are Gaston Aumoitte, Ernst Gräfenberg, Soemu Toyoda, Johann Rattenhuber, Carlos Castillo Armas, and Malcolm Lowry.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tomitaro Makino ranks 450 out of 6,245. Before him are Minoru Genda (1904), Emperor Hanazono (1297), Shigeru Mizuki (1922), Ko Arima (1917), Kido Takayoshi (1833), and Masao Uchino (1934). After him are Masafumi Hara (1943), Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), Rei Kawakubo (1942), Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435), Emperor Takakura (1161), and Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Tomitaro Makino ranks 3. Before him are Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), and Susumu Tonegawa (1939). After him are Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Motoo Kimura (1924), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Takenoshin Nakai (1882), Akira Miyawaki (1928), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Jinzō Matsumura (1856), Akira Endo (1933), and Bunzō Hayata (1874).

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