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 Institute of Science Tokyo's Institute of Innovative Research. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoshinori Ohsumi has received more than 900,068 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Yoshinori Ohsumi is the 27th most popular biologist (up from 33rd in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Japan (down from 47th 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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  • 900k

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  • 73.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks 27 out of 1,097. Before him are Robert Brown, Richard Dawkins, Maria Sibylla Merian, Conrad Gessner, Jules Bordet, and Rachel Carson. After him are Katherine Oppenheimer, Theodor Schwann, Ada Yonath, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Barbara McClintock, and Albrecht Kossel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks 24. Before him are Ehud Olmert, Pete Townshend, Eddy Merckx, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Mircea Lucescu. After him are Björn Ulvaeus, Moshe Katsav, Patrick Modiano, Ritchie Blackmore, Rod Stewart, and Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks 48 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroo Onoda (1922), Morihei Ueshiba (1883), Takeda Shingen (1521), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), and Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159). After him are Soichiro Honda (1906), Olivia de Havilland (1916), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Emperor Ninkō (1800), Emperor Kōkaku (1771), and Tadao Ando (1941).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks 1. After him are Susumu Tonegawa (1939), Tomitaro Makino (1862), 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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