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Kikunae Ikeda

1864 - 1936

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Kikunae Ikeda (池田 菊苗, Ikeda Kikunae; 8 October 1864 – 3 May 1936) was a Japanese chemist and Tokyo Imperial University professor of chemistry who, in 1908, uncovered the chemical basis of a taste he named umami. It is one of the five basic tastes along with sweet, bitter, sour and salty. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kikunae Ikeda is the 291st most popular chemist (down from 255th in 2019), the 394th most popular biography from Japan (down from 323rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 291 out of 602. Before him are Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Richard J. Roberts, Locusta, Satoshi Ōmura, Thomas Andrews, and Andreas Sigismund Marggraf. After him are Leopold Gmelin, Per Teodor Cleve, William C. Campbell, Michael Polanyi, Bernard Courtois, and Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 48. Before him are Andrej Hlinka, Draga Mašin, Franz Oppenheimer, Reginald Dyer, Séraphine Louis, and Auguste Charlois. After him are Ethel Voynich, Qi Baishi, Hermann Weingärtner, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Joseph Bédier, and Carl Correns. Among people deceased in 1936, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 54. Before him are José Sanjurjo, Bertha Pappenheim, Robert Michels, Duan Qirui, Anna Boch, and Marcel Grossmann. After him are Gyula Gömbös, Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, Basil Zaharoff, Carl Stumpf, and Alexander Berkman.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 394 out of 6,245. Before him are Hidesaburō Ueno (1872), Ichirō Hatoyama (1883), Sakae Takahashi (null), Emperor Sushun (520), Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659), and Akinori Nakayama (1943). After him are Akira Matsunaga (1914), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Shimazu Yoshihiro (1535), Koji Sasaki (1936), and Shizuo Miyama (null).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Kikunae Ikeda ranks 8. Before him are Kenichi Fukui (1918), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Akira Yoshino (1948), and Satoshi Ōmura (1935). After him are Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Masatoshi Shima (1943), and Takamine Jōkichi (1854).

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