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Tomitaro Makino

1862 - 1957

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Tomitaro Makino (牧野 富太郎, Makino Tomitarō; April 24, 1862 – January 18, 1957) was a pioneer Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work. He has been called "Father of Japanese Botany", having been one of the first Japanese botanists to work extensively on classifying Japanese plants using the system developed by Linnaeus. His research resulted in documenting 50,000 specimens, many of which are represented in his Makino's Illustrated Flora of Japan. Despite having dropped out of grammar school, he eventually attained a Doctor of Science degree, and his birthday is remembered as Botany Day in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tomitaro Makino is the 763rd most popular biologist (down from 212th in 2019), the 1,210th most popular biography from Japan (down from 450th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Tomitaro Makino ranks 763 out of 1,097. Before him are Garrett Hardin, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, John Hutchinson, Domenico Vandelli, Bertha Lutz, and Adam Lonicer. After him are John Ellis, George Prideaux Robert Harris, Hwang Woo-suk, Wilhelm Weinberg, Otto von Münchhausen, and Emmanuel Drake del Castillo.

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Among people born in 1862, Tomitaro Makino ranks 116. Before him are Milenko Radomar Vesnić, Hugo Erdmann, Edward Granville Browne, Florence Bascom, Ida B. Wells, and Robert Emden. After him are Mirza Alakbar Sabir, Wilhelm Weinberg, Anastasios Metaxas, Fernand Courty, Stanisław Narutowicz, and Mary Proctor. Among people deceased in 1957, Tomitaro Makino ranks 161. Before him are Kulyash Baiseitova, Anna Haava, Carl Størmer, Kurt Pettersén, Aleksey Remizov, and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. After him are Charles King, Maurice Peeters, Ernest Oppenheimer, Robert Lowie, Mary Proctor, and Leopold Staff.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tomitaro Makino ranks 1,210 out of 6,245. Before him are Dai Sato (1971), Yuji Sugano (1961), Yoshiki (1965), Koji Suzuki (1957), Yoshishige Yoshida (1933), and Akira Emoto (1948). After him are Sueo Ōe (1914), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Ichirō Nagai (1931), Mitski (1990), Satoshi Miyauchi (1959), and Nozu Michitsura (1840).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Tomitaro Makino ranks 10. Before him are Takenoshin Nakai (1882), Motoo Kimura (1924), Akira Endo (1933), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), and Bunzō Hayata (1874). After him are Akira Miyawaki (1928), Tokiharu Abe (1911), Jinzō Matsumura (1856), Yasutomi Nishizuka (1932), and Ryuta Kawashima (1959).

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