CHEMIST

Akira Yoshino

1948 - Today

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Akira Yoshino (吉野 彰, Yoshino Akira; born 30 January 1948) is a Japanese chemist. He is a fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation and a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya. He created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery, which became used widely in cellular phones and notebook computers. Yoshino was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and John B. Goodenough. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Akira Yoshino is the 276th most popular chemist (up from 278th in 2019), the 354th most popular biography from Japan (up from 385th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Akira Yoshino ranks 276 out of 602. Before him are Elias James Corey, Georg Brandt, Rudolph A. Marcus, Joachim Sauer, Joseph L. Goldstein, and Ben Feringa. After him are Paul Ulrich Villard, Martin Karplus, Thomas Graham, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, André-Louis Debierne, and Ascanio Sobrero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Akira Yoshino ranks 107. Before him are Mahesh Bhatt, Michel Suleiman, Stevie Nicks, Alia Al-Hussein, John Gray, and Nathalie Baye. After him are Randy Schekman, Krešimir Ćosić, James Ellroy, Mischa Maisky, George Abela, and Jimmy Cliff.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Yoshino ranks 354 out of 6,245. Before him are Yasuo Haruyama (1906), Tamotsu Asakura (null), Masaru Ibuka (1908), Koji Miyata (1923), Saizo Saito (1908), and Emperor Kanmu (737). After him are Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Emperor Go-Uda (1267), Sada Abe (1905), and Shigeo Sugimoto (1926).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Akira Yoshino ranks 6. Before him are Akira Suzuki (1930), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), and Ryōji Noyori (1938). After him are Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Masatoshi Shima (1943), and Takamine Jōkichi (1854).

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