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Yoshio Nishina

1890 - 1951

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Yoshio Nishina (仁科 芳雄, Nishina Yoshio; December 6, 1890 – January 10, 1951) was a Japanese physicist who was called "the founding father of modern physics research in Japan". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yoshio Nishina is the 405th most popular physicist (down from 374th in 2019), the 659th most popular biography from Japan (down from 538th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yoshio Nishina ranks 405 out of 851. Before him are George Uhlenbeck, Takaaki Kajita, Tom Kibble, Paul Drude, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, and Samuel Goudsmit. After him are Otto Schmidt, Jacob Bekenstein, Nick Holonyak, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Edwin Hall, and Oskar Klein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Yoshio Nishina ranks 82. Before him are Norman Bethune, Robert Stroud, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Victoria Ocampo, Jacobus Oud, and László Bárdossy. After him are Henrich Focke, He Yingqin, Solomon Mikhoels, Louis Delluc, Alois Eliáš, and Elizabeth Bolden. Among people deceased in 1951, Yoshio Nishina ranks 58. Before him are François Georges-Picot, Émile Chartier, Kijūrō Shidehara, John Sloan, Warner Baxter, and Mikhail Borodin. After him are Osman Batur, Louis Jouvet, Ali Sami Yen, Géza Maróczy, Henrietta Lacks, and Wols.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshio Nishina ranks 659 out of 6,245. Before him are Hisao Sekiguchi (1954), Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106), Emperor Horikawa (1079), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), Kiyosi Itô (1915), and Masashi Kishimoto (1974). After him are Teruki Miyamoto (1940), Momoko Kōchi (1932), Emperor Reizei (949), Keisuke Okada (1868), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), and Tanaka Giichi (1864).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Yoshio Nishina ranks 13. Before him are Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hiroshi Amano (1960), and Takaaki Kajita (1959). After him are Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), Sumio Iijima (1939), Shoichi Sakata (1911), Yoshiaki Arata (1924), and Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926).

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