BIOLOGIST

Tsuneko Okazaki

1933 - Today

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Tsuneko Okazaki (岡崎 恒子, Okazaki Tsuneko, born June 7, 1933) is a Japanese pioneer of molecular biology known for her work on DNA replication and specifically for discovering Okazaki fragments, along with her late husband Reiji. Dr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tsuneko Okazaki has received more than 121,291 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Tsuneko Okazaki is the 586th most popular biologist (down from 530th in 2019), the 1,085th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,002nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Biologist.

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  • 120k

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  • 50.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Tsuneko Okazaki ranks 586 out of 1,097. Before her are Georg August Schweinfurth, Harold E. Varmus, Edmond Albius, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Franz Unger, and Johann Gottfried Zinn. After her are João de Loureiro, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Garrett Hardin, Jean-Étienne Guettard, Antoine Risso, and Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Tsuneko Okazaki ranks 283. Before her are Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Tete Montoliu, James Wolfensohn, Charlie Wilson, Bill Hayden, and Bill Nieder. After her are Georgi Atanasov, Suchinda Kraprayoon, Ulrich Biesinger, H. D. Deve Gowda, Haruo Remeliik, and Brad Harris.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tsuneko Okazaki ranks 1,085 out of 6,245. Before her are Goro Yamada (1894), Miyuki Nakajima (1952), Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899), Toyohara Chikanobu (1838), Hidemaro Watanabe (1924), and Shigemi Ishii (1951). After her are Uemura Shōen (1875), Shirase Nobu (1861), Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (1949), Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Masujiro Nishida (1899), and Teizo Takeuchi (1908).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Tsuneko Okazaki ranks 9. Before her are Tomitaro Makino (1862), Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Motoo Kimura (1924), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Takenoshin Nakai (1882), and Akira Miyawaki (1928). After her are Jinzō Matsumura (1856), Akira Endo (1933), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Yasutomi Nishizuka (1932), Tokiharu Abe (1911), and Ryuta Kawashima (1959).

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