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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 49,396 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Tomitaro Makino is the 565th most popular biologist (up from 700th in 2019), the 1,051st most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,101st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Tomitaro Makino ranks 565 out of 841. Before him are Anne McLaren, Ludwik Hirszfeld, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Carl Alexander Clerck, Joseph Banks Rhine, and Franz Meyen. After him are Frederic Clements, Francis Collins, Gustav Radde, Achille Richard, Alfred Sturtevant, and Oswald Heer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Tomitaro Makino ranks 109. Before him are Theodor Fischer, Aleksander Kakowski, Tang Shaoyi, Ida B. Wells, Wilhelm Solf, and Christopher Cradock. After him are Moriz Rosenthal, Damrong Rajanubhab, Arthur De Greef, Émile Coste, Meliton Balanchivadze, and Henry Slocum. Among people deceased in 1957, Tomitaro Makino ranks 140. Before him are Alice Milliat, Oldřich Duras, Kulyash Baiseitova, Ferenc Hirzer, Théophile de Donder, and Gustav Mie. After him are Heinrich Campendonk, Leopold Staff, Percy Hobart, Carl Bonde, Ronald Knox, and Lasar Segall.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tomitaro Makino ranks 1,051 out of 6,048. Before him are Teizo Takeuchi (1908), Minoru Chiaki (1917), Ayako Wakao (1933), Takuma Sato (1977), Atsuyoshi Furuta (1952), and Toshio Furukawa (1946). After him are Toyohara Chikanobu (1838), Tamlyn Tomita (1966), Kenji Miyamoto (1908), Sueo Ōe (1914), Masujiro Nishida (1899), and Kanō Tan'yū (1602).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Tomitaro Makino ranks 7. Before him are Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), Susumu Tonegawa (1939), Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Motoo Kimura (1924), Takenoshin Nakai (1882), and Tsuneko Okazaki (1933). After him are Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Tokiharu Abe (1911), and Ryuta Kawashima (1959).

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