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Sumio Iijima

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Sumio Iijima (飯島 澄男, Iijima Sumio; born 2 May 1939) is a Japanese physicist and inventor, often cited for his discovery of carbon nanotubes. Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his "invention", Iijima's 1991 paper generated unprecedented interest in the carbon nanostructures and has since fueled intense research in the area of nanotechnology. Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1939, Iijima graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1963 from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. He received a Master's degree in 1965 and completed his Ph.D. in solid-state physics in 1968, both at Tohoku University in Sendai. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sumio Iijima is the 586th most popular physicist (up from 623rd in 2019), the 1,137th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,191st in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Physicist. Learn more about Sumio Iijima's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sumio Iijima ranks 586 out of 851. Before him are Yakov Frenkel, Yulii Khariton, Antonio Pacinotti, Sergey Kapitsa, Georg Adolf Erman, and Otto Lehmann. After him are Michael Berry, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Kenneth Bainbridge, John Henry Schwarz, Artem Alikhanian, and Frank J. Tipler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Sumio Iijima ranks 322. Before him are Joseph Raz, Robert Waseige, Alexandra Stewart, Norma Cappagli, Vaçe Zela, and Baldur Preiml. After him are Abdullah Ensour, Dixie Carter, Robert Herbin, Gösta Ekman, Michael J. Pollard, and Oʻtkir Sultonov.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sumio Iijima ranks 1,137 out of 6,245. Before him are Ikuo Matsumoto (1941), Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928), Mutsuhiro Watanabe (1918), Shinichi Hoshi (1926), Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928), and Masato Kudo (1990). After him are Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), Yasuji Miyazaki (1916), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi (1902), Kazuhiko Inoue (1954), and Saigō Jūdō (1843).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Sumio Iijima ranks 16. Before him are Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), and Toshiko Yuasa (1909). After him are Shoichi Sakata (1911), Yoshiaki Arata (1924), Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926), and Ted Fujita (1920).

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