1921 - 2015
Yoichiro Nambu (南部 陽一郎, Nanbu Yōichirō, 18 January 1921 – 5 July 2015) was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoichiro Nambu has received more than 292,330 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Yoichiro Nambu is the 224th most popular physicist (down from 218th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 108th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Physicist.
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Among physicists, Yoichiro Nambu ranks 224 out of 721. Before him are Carl von Linde, Edmond Becquerel, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Tsung-Dao Lee, Joseph Swan, and Johannes Rydberg. After him are Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., David J. Thouless, John Tyndall, Val Logsdon Fitch, Burton Richter, and Georg von Békésy.
1842 - 1934
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 218
1820 - 1891
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 219
1921 - 1999
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 220
1926 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 221
1828 - 1914
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 222
1854 - 1919
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 223
1921 - 2015
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 224
1915 - 2011
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 225
1934 - 2019
HPI: 70.58
Rank: 226
1820 - 1893
HPI: 70.56
Rank: 227
1923 - 2015
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 228
1931 - 2018
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 229
1899 - 1972
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 230
Among people born in 1921, Yoichiro Nambu ranks 51. Before him are Alida Valli, Edgar Morin, Sugar Ray Robinson, Marija Gimbutas, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, and Georges Brassens. After him are Yitzhak Navon, Paul Watzlawick, Zdeněk Miler, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Alexandra of Yugoslavia, and Moacir Barbosa Nascimento. Among people deceased in 2015, Yoichiro Nambu ranks 46. Before him are Frei Otto, Pierre Brice, Charles H. Townes, Faten Hamama, Irwin Rose, and Maureen O'Hara. After him are Yitzhak Navon, Ben E. King, James Horner, Michele Ferrero, René Girard, and Val Logsdon Fitch.
1921 - 2006
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 45
1921 - Present
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 46
1921 - 1989
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 47
1921 - 1994
HPI: 70.77
Rank: 48
1921 - 1999
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 49
1921 - 1981
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 50
1921 - 2015
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 51
1921 - 2015
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 52
1921 - 2007
HPI: 70.35
Rank: 53
1921 - 2011
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 54
1921 - 2008
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 55
1921 - 1993
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 56
1921 - 2000
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 57
1925 - 2015
HPI: 71.69
Rank: 40
1929 - 2015
HPI: 71.61
Rank: 41
1915 - 2015
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 42
1931 - 2015
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 43
1926 - 2015
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 44
1920 - 2015
HPI: 70.96
Rank: 45
1921 - 2015
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 46
1921 - 2015
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 47
1938 - 2015
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 48
1953 - 2015
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 49
1925 - 2015
HPI: 70.56
Rank: 50
1923 - 2015
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 51
1923 - 2015
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 52
Among people born in Japan, Yoichiro Nambu ranks 133 out of 5,560. Before him are Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Emperor Kōrei (-341), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), Hisataka Okamoto (1933), and Zeami Motokiyo (1363). After him are Kunishige Kamamoto (1944), Emperor Ōjin (210), Emperor Suinin (-69), Mikao Usui (1865), Okita Sōji (1842), and Ken Watanabe (1959).
1913 - 2008
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 127
1915 - 1997
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 128
341 BC - 214 BC
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 129
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 130
1933 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 131
1363 - 1443
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 132
1921 - 2015
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 133
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 134
210 - 310
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 135
69 BC - 70
HPI: 70.58
Rank: 136
1865 - 1926
HPI: 70.55
Rank: 137
1842 - 1868
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 138
1959 - Present
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 139
Among physicists born in Japan, Yoichiro Nambu ranks 4. Before him are Hideki Yukawa (1907), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), and Isamu Akasaki (1929). After him are Leo Esaki (1925), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Yoshio Nishina (1890), and Takaaki Kajita (1959).
1907 - 1981
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 1
1906 - 1979
HPI: 72.04
Rank: 2
1929 - Present
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 3
1921 - 2015
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 4
1925 - Present
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 5
1944 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 6
1926 - 2020
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 7
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 8
1954 - Present
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 9
1865 - 1950
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 10
1890 - 1951
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 11
1959 - Present
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 12