BIOLOGIST

Yoshinori Ohsumi

1945 - Today

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Yoshinori Ohsumi (大隅 良典, Ōsumi Yoshinori; born February 9, 1945) is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components. Ohsumi is a professor at Institute of Science Tokyo's Institute of Innovative Research. He received the Kyoto Prize for Basic Sciences in 2012, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yoshinori Ohsumi is the 24th most popular biologist (up from 27th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Japan (up from 48th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Biologist. Learn more about Yoshinori Ohsumi's academic impact at Rankless.

Yoshinori Ohsumi is most famous for his research on autophagy. Autophagy is the process by which cells degrade and recycle their own components.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks 24 out of 1,097. Before him are Macfarlane Burnet, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Élie Metchnikoff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Jules Bordet, and Edward Tatum. After him are John Boyd Orr, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Sulston, Richard Dawkins, and Luc Montagnier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks 20. Before him are Eric Clapton, Jupp Heynckes, Eddy Merckx, Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Wim Wenders, and Daniel Ortega. After him are Patrick Modiano, Helen Mirren, Björn Ulvaeus, Hasan Akhund, Golden State Killer, and Robert Sarah.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks 29 out of 6,245. Before him are Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Osamu Dazai (1909), Lee Myung-bak (1941), and Kenzaburō Ōe (1935). After him are Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Kanō Jigorō (1860), Yayoi Kusama (1929), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Hattori Hanzō (1542), and Jiroemon Kimura (1897).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks 1. After him are Susumu Tonegawa (1939), 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).

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