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BIOLOGIST

Yoshinori Ohsumi

1945 - Today

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Yoshinori Ohsumi (大隅 良典, Ōsumi Yoshinori, born February 9, 1945) is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components. Ohsumi is a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology's Institute of Innovative Research. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoshinori Ohsumi has received more than 847,134 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Yoshinori Ohsumi is the 33rd most popular biologist (down from 28th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Japan (down from 41st in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Biologist.

Yoshinori Ohsumi is most famous for his research on autophagy. Autophagy is the process by which cells degrade and recycle their own components.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks 33 out of 841. Before him are Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Conrad Gessner, Jules Bordet, Dian Fossey, Charles Richet, and Theodor Schwann. After him are Harald zur Hausen, Albrecht Kossel, Karl von Frisch, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Christian de Duve, and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks 22. Before him are Lemmy, Wim Wenders, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Eddy Merckx, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Ritchie Blackmore. After him are Mircea Lucescu, Rod Stewart, Patrick Modiano, Ian Gillan, Goldie Hawn, and Ehud Olmert.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks 47 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Ninkō (1800), Hiroshige (1797), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Emperor Kōkaku (1771), Saigō Takamori (1828), and Itō Hirobumi (1841). After him are Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Takeda Shingen (1521), Utamaro (1753), Isao Takahata (1935), Soichiro Honda (1906), and Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks 1. After him are Susumu Tonegawa (1939), Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Motoo Kimura (1924), Takenoshin Nakai (1882), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Tomitaro Makino (1862), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Tokiharu Abe (1911), and Ryuta Kawashima (1959).

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