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Tsutomu Yamaguchi

1916 - 2010

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Tsutomu Yamaguchi (山口 彊, Yamaguchi Tsutomu) (16 March 1916 – 4 January 2010) was a Japanese marine engineer who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 160 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions. A resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 AM, on 6 August 1945. He returned to Nagasaki the following day and, despite his wounds, returned to work on 9 August, the day of the second atomic bombing. That morning, while he was being told by his supervisor that he was "crazy" after describing how one bomb had destroyed the city, the Nagasaki bomb detonated. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the 23rd most popular engineer (down from 17th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Japan (down from 62nd in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Engineer.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was most famous for being the only person to survive the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Tsutomu Yamaguchi ranks 23 out of 389. Before him are Umberto Nobile, Fritz Todt, Anatoly Dyatlov, Jack Kilby, Andrei Tupolev, and Artem Mikoyan. After him are Banū Mūsā, Leslie Groves, Hans Albert Einstein, August Horch, Willy Messerschmitt, and Bassel al-Assad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Tsutomu Yamaguchi ranks 30. Before him are Hans Eysenck, Sune Bergström, Maurice Wilkins, Harold Wilson, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, and Walt Whitman Rostow. After him are Alexander Prokhorov, Paul Keres, Vitaly Ginzburg, Ruth Handler, Natalia Ginzburg, and Abdul Rahman Arif. Among people deceased in 2010, Tsutomu Yamaguchi ranks 24. Before him are Alois Brunner, Claude Chabrol, Dennis Hopper, Néstor Kirchner, Vasily Smyslov, and Marshall Warren Nirenberg. After him are Zecharia Sitchin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Francesco Cossiga, Harry Mulisch, Algirdas Brazauskas, and Gennady Yanayev.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tsutomu Yamaguchi ranks 88 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Uesugi Kenshin (1530), Naoto Kan (1946), Empress Michiko (1934), and Kōbō Abe (1924). After him are Liv Ullmann (1938), Emperor Itoku (-553), Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Emperor Go-Momozono (1758), Junko Tabei (1939), and Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740).

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Among ENGINEERS In Japan

Among engineers born in Japan, Tsutomu Yamaguchi ranks 1. After him are Jiro Horikoshi (1903), Masaru Ibuka (1908), Hidesaburō Ueno (1872), Genichi Taguchi (1924), Hidetsugu Yagi (1886), and Naoki Hattori (1966).

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