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Hantaro Nagaoka

1865 - 1950

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Hantaro Nagaoka (長岡 半太郎, Nagaoka Hantarō; August 19, 1865 – December 11, 1950) was a Japanese physicist and a pioneer of Japanese physics during the Meiji period. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hantaro Nagaoka is the 428th most popular physicist (down from 399th in 2019), the 739th most popular biography from Japan (down from 622nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hantaro Nagaoka ranks 428 out of 851. Before him are John Mauchly, Jules Jamin, Louis Harold Gray, John Henry Poynting, Ányos Jedlik, and Saul Perlmutter. After him are Ernst Chladni, Raoul Pictet, Alan Guth, Homi J. Bhabha, Boris Podolsky, and Walther Ritz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Hantaro Nagaoka ranks 72. Before him are Johannes Franz Hartmann, Pēteris Stučka, Olga Boznańska, Bronisława Dłuska, Erich von Drygalski, and Aspazija. After him are Said Halim Pasha, Eduardo di Capua, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Princess Olga Paley, Aaron Kosminski, and Prince Kan'in Kotohito. Among people deceased in 1950, Hantaro Nagaoka ranks 74. Before him are Arturo Alessandri, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Kazys Grinius, Yvan Goll, Peter Fraser, and Nikolai Voznesensky. After him are Walter Eucken, Alma Karlin, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Lev Berg, Shigenori Tōgō, and Sami al-Hinnawi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hantaro Nagaoka ranks 739 out of 6,245. Before him are Kon Ichikawa (1915), Seichō Matsumoto (1909), Tatsuhiko Seta (1952), Shintaro Abe (1924), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), and Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (1949). After him are Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), Prince Morikuni (1301), Toshio Takabayashi (1953), Hon'inbō Shūsaku (1829), Wakisaka Yasuharu (1554), and Hōjō Ujiyasu (1515).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Hantaro Nagaoka ranks 14. Before him are Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), and Yoshio Nishina (1890). After him are Toshiko Yuasa (1909), Sumio Iijima (1939), Shoichi Sakata (1911), Yoshiaki Arata (1924), Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926), and Ted Fujita (1920).

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