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Motoo Kimura

1924 - 1994

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Motoo Kimura (木村 資生, Kimura Motō) (November 13, 1924 – November 13, 1994) was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968. He became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticists. He is remembered in genetics for his innovative use of diffusion equations to calculate the probability of fixation of beneficial, deleterious, or neutral alleles. Combining theoretical population genetics with molecular evolution data, he also developed the neutral theory of molecular evolution in which genetic drift is the main force changing allele frequencies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Motoo Kimura is the 309th most popular biologist (up from 333rd in 2019), the 647th most popular biography from Japan (up from 726th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Motoo Kimura ranks 309 out of 1,097. Before him are Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, Edward Turner Bennett, Jacob Christian Schäffer, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Hieronymus Bock, and Karl Alfred von Zittel. After him are John Gurdon, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Elmer Drew Merrill, Karl Gegenbaur, Gerrit Smith Miller, and Jean Victoir Audouin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Motoo Kimura ranks 124. Before him are Neville Marriner, Paul Desmond, Raymond Barre, Rik Van Steenbergen, Hidemaro Watanabe, and Priscilla Pointer. After him are Machiko Kyō, Luigi Musso, Paisios of Mount Athos, Roland Petit, Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Yehuda Amichai. Among people deceased in 1994, Motoo Kimura ranks 96. Before him are Olga Rubtsova, Manfred Wörner, Nikolai Ogarkov, Wilma Rudolph, Claude Akins, and Cab Calloway. After him are R. D. Burman, Paisios of Mount Athos, Álvaro del Portillo, Jack Unterweger, Jérôme Lejeune, and Sarah Kofman.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Motoo Kimura ranks 647 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshitada Yamaguchi (1944), Yoshiichi Watanabe (1954), Senjūrō Hayashi (1876), Empress Shōken (1849), Ankō Itosu (1831), and Tokugawa Ietsugu (1709). After him are Teruo Nimura (1943), Mitsuko Uchida (1948), Enomoto Takeaki (1836), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Machiko Kyō (1924), and Hisao Sekiguchi (1954).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Motoo Kimura ranks 5. Before him are Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), Susumu Tonegawa (1939), Hideyo Noguchi (1876), and Takenoshin Nakai (1882). After him are Akira Endo (1933), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Tomitaro Makino (1862), Akira Miyawaki (1928), and Tokiharu Abe (1911).

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