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Yoshio Nishina

1890 - 1951

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Yoshio Nishina (仁科 芳雄, Nishina Yoshio, December 6, 1890 – January 10, 1951) was a Japanese physicist who was called "the founding father of modern physics research in Japan". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoshio Nishina has received more than 132,544 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Yoshio Nishina is the 416th most popular physicist (up from 425th in 2019), the 718th most popular biography from Japan (up from 735th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yoshio Nishina ranks 416 out of 717. Before him are Samuel Goudsmit, Auguste Bravais, Douglas Hofstadter, Erich Hückel, Homi J. Bhabha, and Federico Faggin. After him are Meghnad Saha, Vladimir Fock, John C. Mather, Heinrich Barkhausen, Martin Knudsen, and Johannes Franz Hartmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Yoshio Nishina ranks 93. Before him are Clarence Brown, Victoria Ocampo, Sarah Aaronsohn, Duke Kahanamoku, Mustafa Shokay, and Vasili Eroshenko. After him are Emilio Portes Gil, Erwin Jaenecke, Robert Stroud, Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Henrich Focke, and Evert Taube. Among people deceased in 1951, Yoshio Nishina ranks 68. Before him are Tadeusz Borowski, Géza Maróczy, Robert Grant Aitken, Liaquat Ali Khan, Maria Montez, and Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia. After him are Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Warner Baxter, Louis Lavelle, Abanindranath Tagore, John Paine, and Vasiliy Ulrikh.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshio Nishina ranks 718 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor En'yū (959), Eiji Toyoda (1913), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Shintaro Katsu (1931), Hayashi Razan (1583), and Naoko Takeuchi (1967). After him are Okakura Kakuzō (1862), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Keisuke Okada (1868), Katō Takaaki (1860), Seijun Suzuki (1923), and Takeo Wakabayashi (1907).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Yoshio Nishina ranks 12. Before him are Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Leo Esaki (1925), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), and Hantaro Nagaoka (1865). After him are Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Sumio Iijima (1939), Ted Fujita (1920), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), and Shoichi Sakata (1911).

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