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Shoichi Sakata

1911 - 1970

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Shoichi Sakata (坂田 昌一, Sakata Shōichi; 18 January 1911 – 16 October 1970) was a Japanese physicist and Marxist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the subatomic particles. He proposed the two meson theory, the Sakata model (an early precursor to the quark model), and the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata neutrino mixing matrix. After the end of World War II, he joined other physicists in campaigning for the peaceful uses of nuclear power. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shoichi Sakata is the 601st most popular physicist (up from 666th in 2019), the 1,171st most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,273rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Shoichi Sakata ranks 601 out of 851. Before him are Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Vladimir Veksler, Henry Augustus Rowland, Tullio Regge, William Edward Ayrton, and Gustav Mie. After him are Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Anatoly Alexandrov, Pierre Weiss, Robert Mills, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and James David Forbes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Shoichi Sakata ranks 216. Before him are Amir Hamzah, Luise Rinser, Romeu Pellicciari, Lee Falk, Paul Pietsch, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz. After him are Gavriil Kachalin, Álvaro Cunqueiro, Giuseppe Olmo, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Maurice Schumann, and Willem Johan Kolff. Among people deceased in 1970, Shoichi Sakata ranks 180. Before him are Alice Hamilton, Nathan Altman, Anna Louise Strong, Marcel Minnaert, Karel Pešek, and Julius Pokorny. After him are Paul Schmidt, Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Arne Nyberg, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Helene Madison, and Inger Stevens.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shoichi Sakata ranks 1,171 out of 6,245. Before him are Shinobu Hashimoto (1918), Ayako Wakao (1933), Naoki Matsushita (1978), Toshio Furukawa (1946), Kyoko Kuroda (1969), and Yuriko Shima (1959). After him are Kosuke Suzuki (1981), Yukio Endo (1937), Kusuo Kitamura (1917), Kanno Sugako (1881), Tsuru Aoki (1892), and Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Shoichi Sakata ranks 17. Before him are Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), and Sumio Iijima (1939). After him are Yoshiaki Arata (1924), Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926), and Ted Fujita (1920).

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