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Takenoshin Nakai

1882 - 1952

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Takenoshin Nakai (中井 猛之進, Nakai Takenoshin; November 27, 1882, Gifu Prefecture – December 6, 1952) was a Japanese botanist. In 1919 and 1930, he published papers on the plants of Japan and Korea, including the genus Cephalotaxus. Between 1943 and 1945, during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Takenoshin Nakai was the director of 's Lands Plantentuin in Batavia (now Bogor Botanical Gardens in Bogor). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Takenoshin Nakai is the 302nd most popular biologist (up from 440th in 2019), the 623rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 913th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Takenoshin Nakai ranks 302 out of 1,097. Before him are Peter Medawar, George Bentham, Wilbur Scoville, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, and Jacob Georg Agardh. After him are Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, Edward Turner Bennett, Jacob Christian Schäffer, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Hieronymus Bock, and Karl Alfred von Zittel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Takenoshin Nakai ranks 98. Before him are John Barrymore, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Harold Lowe, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, David Burliuk, and Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After him are Vilém Mathesius, Ladislas Starevich, Song Jiaoren, Donald Crisp, Jess McMahon, and Emma Jung. Among people deceased in 1952, Takenoshin Nakai ranks 55. Before him are Johan Nygaardsvold, Emilie Louise Flöge, Alfred Einstein, John Langenus, Solomiya Krushelnytska, and Michael von Faulhaber. After him are Otto Dietrich, Carlo Sforza, Paul Neményi, Keisuke Okada, William Fox, and Clark L. Hull.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takenoshin Nakai ranks 623 out of 6,245. Before him are Soemu Toyoda (1885), Hiraga Gennai (1728), Tokugawa Ienobu (1662), Saionji Kinmochi (1849), Hiroshi Ōshima (1886), and Ken Naganuma (1930). After him are Kijūrō Shidehara (1872), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), Takeo Miki (1907), Korechika Anami (1887), Shūmei Ōkawa (1886), and Ukita Hideie (1573).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Takenoshin Nakai ranks 4. Before him are Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), Susumu Tonegawa (1939), and Hideyo Noguchi (1876). After him are 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).

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