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Shin'ichirō Tomonaga

1906 - 1979

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Shinichiro Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎, Tomonaga Shin'ichirō; March 31, 1906 – July 8, 1979), usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shin'ichirō Tomonaga is the 183rd most popular physicist (down from 170th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Japan (up from 86th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Physicist.

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga is most famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, specifically the Tomonaga-Schwinger equation.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 183 out of 851. Before him are Herbert Kroemer, Martin Lewis Perl, Richard E. Taylor, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Burton Richter, and Isamu Akasaki. After him are Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Hans Geiger, Georg von Békésy, Douglas Osheroff, and George Smoot.

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Among people born in 1906, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 41. Before him are Hermann Fegelein, Léon Degrelle, Ed Gein, Josef Kramer, Clyde Tombaugh, and Marcelo Caetano. After him are Soichiro Honda, Alexey Stakhanov, Wassily Leontief, Max Delbrück, Dino Buzzati, and Klaus Mann. Among people deceased in 1979, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 17. Before him are Jean Renoir, Jean Monnet, Sándor Kocsis, Talcott Parsons, Nadia Boulanger, and Mika Waltari. After him are Hafizullah Amin, Ludvík Svoboda, Robert Burns Woodward, Mustafa Barzani, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Sonia Delaunay.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 69 out of 6,245. Before him are Mako (1933), Koxinga (1624), Dōgen (1200), Yoshihide Suga (1948), Antonio Inoki (1943), and Isamu Akasaki (1929). After him are Tadao Ando (1941), Soichiro Honda (1906), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Kenzō Tange (1913), Nichiren (1222), and Tomoe Gozen (1157).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga ranks 3. Before him are Hideki Yukawa (1907), and Isamu Akasaki (1929). After him are Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hiroshi Amano (1960), and Takaaki Kajita (1959).

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