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Susumu Tonegawa

1939 - Today

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Susumu Tonegawa (利根川 進, Tonegawa Susumu; born September 5, 1939) is a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity. Although he won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunology, Tonegawa is a molecular biologist by training and he again changed fields following his Nobel Prize win; he now studies neuroscience, examining the molecular, cellular and neuronal basis of memory formation and retrieval. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Susumu Tonegawa is the 158th most popular biologist (up from 163rd in 2019), the 200th most popular biography from Japan (up from 276th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Biologist. Learn more about Susumu Tonegawa's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 158 out of 1,097Before him are Joshua Lederberg, Bernard Katz, Thomas Huckle Weller, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Martin Chalfie, and Jakob von Uexküll. After him are Nettie Stevens, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Salvador Luria, George Davis Snell, Renato Dulbecco, and Mario Capecchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 53Before him are Michael Cimino, Sonny Chiba, Ray Manzarek, Volker Schlöndorff, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, and Stanisław Dziwisz. After him are Leland H. Hartwell, Alfredo Palacio, Carlo Ginzburg, Beate Klarsfeld, Henry Mintzberg, and Ion Țiriac.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 200 out of 6,245Before him are Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), Takeshi Inoue (1928), Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Junji Kawano (1945), and Takeo Wakabayashi (1907). After him are Kitarō (1953), Shozo Tsugitani (1940), Emperor Richū (336), Shiro Azumi (null), Emperor Kaika (-208), and Kazuyoshi Miura (1967).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Susumu Tonegawa ranks 2Before him are Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945). After him are Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Takenoshin Nakai (1882), Motoo Kimura (1924), Akira Endo (1933), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Tomitaro Makino (1862), Akira Miyawaki (1928), and Tokiharu Abe (1911).