INVENTOR

Yoshiro Nakamatsu

1928 - Today

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Yoshiro Nakamatsu (中松 義郎, Nakamatsu Yoshirō, born June 26, 1928), also known as Dr. NakaMats (ドクター中松, Dokutā Nakamatsu), is a Japanese inventor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoshiro Nakamatsu has received more than 544,179 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Yoshiro Nakamatsu is the 270th most popular inventor (down from 268th in 2019), the 1,015th most popular biography from Japan (down from 916th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Inventor.

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  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Yoshiro Nakamatsu ranks 270 out of 426Before him are Harry Brearley, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Louis Lumière, Walter Clopton Wingfield, Colin Archer, and François Isaac de Rivaz. After him are Glenn Curtiss, Adolf Martens, Cyrus McCormick, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, Theodore Maiman, and Samuel Morland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Yoshiro Nakamatsu ranks 301Before him are Luciano De Crescenzo, Roald Aas, Fatemeh Pahlavi, Qian Qichen, José Bonaparte, and Estelle Harris. After him are Milka Babović, Sisavath Keobounphanh, Guy Bourdin, Luis Posada Carriles, Cristina Calderón, and Hiroshi Nakajima.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshiro Nakamatsu ranks 1,015 out of 6,245Before him are Michitsuna's mother (935), Yasuhiro Yamashita (1957), Yukio Kasaya (1943), Kunio Yanagita (1875), Nobuo Kawakami (1947), and Toshio Furukawa (1946). After him are Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), Damo Suzuki (1950), Homare Sawa (1978), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), and Ogyū Sorai (1666).

Among INVENTORS In Japan

Among inventors born in Japan, Yoshiro Nakamatsu ranks 4Before him are Kōnosuke Matsushita (1894), Sakichi Toyoda (1867), and Shigeo Shingo (1909). After him are Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899).