BIOLOGIST

Akira Miyawaki

1928 - 2021

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Akira Miyawaki (宮脇 昭, Miyawaki Akira; 29 January 1928 – 16 July 2021) was a Japanese botanist and an expert in plant ecology who specialized in seeds and natural forests. He was active worldwide as a specialist in natural vegetation restoration of degraded land. He was professor emeritus at Yokohama National University and director of the Japanese Center for International Studies in Ecology since 1993. He received the Blue Planet Prize in 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Akira Miyawaki is the 823rd most popular biologist (down from 548th in 2019), the 1,280th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,052nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Akira Miyawaki ranks 823 out of 1,097. Before him are André Thouin, Charlotte Auerbach, Gustav Lindau, Robert Trivers, John Abbot, and Albrecht Thaer. After him are Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, Michele Tenore, Ernst Ahl, Thomas Hardwicke, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, and Charles Wallace Richmond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Akira Miyawaki ranks 393. Before him are Dezső Bundzsák, François Remetter, Germà Colón, Ann Blyth, William Trevor, and Emilio Caprile. After him are Abdul Sattar Edhi, Hushang Ebtehaj, Manuel Scorza, Takako Doi, Ion Druță, and Tom Lantos. Among people deceased in 2021, Akira Miyawaki ranks 381. Before him are Abdelhamid Brahimi, Elmira Minita Gordon, Alex Cord, Art Metrano, Yves Dreyfus, and Una Stubbs. After him are Bruce Kirby, Aurelio Galfetti, Jane Powell, Sophie, Leslie Laing, and John Polkinghorne.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Miyawaki ranks 1,280 out of 6,245. Before him are Kenichi Serada (1973), Atsushi Uchiyama (1959), Masaaki Mori (1961), Shozo Sasahara (1929), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), and Katsuhiro Kusaki (1962). After him are Banjō Ginga (1948), Yoshiki Tanaka (1952), Hōchū Ōtsuka (1954), Shoji Nishio (1927), Kazuo Imanishi (1941), and Masamune Shirow (1961).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Akira Miyawaki ranks 11. Before him are Motoo Kimura (1924), Akira Endo (1933), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Bunzō Hayata (1874), and Tomitaro Makino (1862). After him are Tokiharu Abe (1911), Jinzō Matsumura (1856), Yasutomi Nishizuka (1932), and Ryuta Kawashima (1959).

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