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Osamu Shimomura

1928 - 2018

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Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩, Shimomura Osamu; August 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018) was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and professor emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two American scientists: Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Roger Tsien of the University of California-San Diego. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Osamu Shimomura is the 218th most popular chemist (down from 201st in 2019), the 170th most popular biography from Japan (up from 224th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Osamu Shimomura ranks 218 out of 602. Before him are Nikolay Semyonov, Paul Lauterbur, Kenichi Fukui, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Sophia Brahe, and Leo Baekeland. After him are Giulio Natta, C. N. R. Rao, Ahmed Zewail, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, John Newlands, and Joachim Frank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Osamu Shimomura ranks 58. Before him are Li Peng, Alfonso de Portago, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Peyo, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Daniel Nathans. After him are Hardy Krüger, Reynaldo Bignone, Karlheinz Böhm, Takeshi Inoue, Jacques Rivette, and Ján Zachara. Among people deceased in 2018, Osamu Shimomura ranks 57. Before him are Jamal Khashoggi, Jin Yong, Gudrun Burwitz, Robert Venturi, R. Lee Ermey, and Shoko Asahara. After him are Stéphane Audran, Michael Halliday, Reynaldo Bignone, Francis Lai, Wim Kok, and Claude Lanzmann.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Osamu Shimomura ranks 170 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Sujin (-147), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Issey Miyake (1938), Kuniaki Koiso (1880), Shoko Asahara (1955), and Emperor Suinin (-69). After him are Takashi Takabayashi (1931), Teiichi Matsumaru (1909), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Emperor Kōtoku (596), Fujiko Fujio (1934), and Fumimaro Konoe (1891).

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Among CHEMISTS In Japan

Among chemists born in Japan, Osamu Shimomura ranks 3. Before him are Akira Suzuki (1930), and Kenichi Fukui (1918). After him are Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Akira Yoshino (1948), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Masatoshi Shima (1943), and Takamine Jōkichi (1854).

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