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Hidetsugu Yagi

1886 - 1976

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Hidetsugu Yagi (八木 秀次, Yagi Hidetsugu; January 28, 1886 – January 19, 1976) was a Japanese electrical engineer from Osaka, Japan. When working at Tohoku Imperial University, he wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his assistant Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world. The Yagi-Uda antenna, patented in 1926, allows directional transmission using radio waves, and is especially useful in the very high frequency and ultra high frequency radio bands . Antennas of this type were widely used for television and radio reception, and are still common in communication and radar systems. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hidetsugu Yagi is the 239th most popular engineer (down from 231st in 2019), the 1,113th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,039th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hidetsugu Yagi ranks 239 out of 389. Before him are Béla Barényi, Jon Postel, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Eilmer of Malmesbury, Alfred Neubauer, and René Panhard. After him are Arthur Rudolph, Yahya Ayyash, Ferdinand Mannlicher, Charles F. Brush, Eugène Flachat, and Ed Heinemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Hidetsugu Yagi ranks 193. Before him are Boris Eikhenbaum, Hella Wuolijoki, Kid Ory, Robert Andersson, Ludwig Bieberbach, and Frank Irons. After him are Philip K. Hitti, Ion Gigurtu, Heorhiy Narbut, Austin Osman Spare, Lupu Pick, and Alfonso López Pumarejo. Among people deceased in 1976, Hidetsugu Yagi ranks 154. Before him are Sinn Sisamouth, Rudi Fischer, Otto Tief, Viggo Kampmann, Ernst Albrecht, and Gina Bachauer. After him are Mariano Ospina Pérez, Pinhas Lavon, E. H. Shepard, Conduelo Píriz, Stanley Baker, and Armas Taipale.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hidetsugu Yagi ranks 1,113 out of 6,245. Before him are Shigeharu Ueki (1954), Yuji Nakayoshi (1972), Tamotsu Suzuki (1947), Machiko Hasegawa (1920), Ichirō Ozawa (1942), and Chushiro Hayashi (1920). After him are Ayumi Hamasaki (1978), Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931), Yūsaku Matsuda (1949), Ōmura Masujirō (1824), Hisashi Owada (1932), and Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874).

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Among ENGINEERS In Japan

Among engineers born in Japan, Hidetsugu Yagi ranks 6. Before him are Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Jiro Horikoshi (1903), Masaru Ibuka (1908), Hidesaburō Ueno (1872), and Genichi Taguchi (1924). After him are Naoki Hattori (1966).

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