List of Japanese inventors and discoverers
The List of Japanese Inventors and Discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from Japan in alphabetical order by family name.
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- Momofuku Ando , inventor of instant noodles
- Isamu Akasaki , physicist, co-inventor of the first blue light-emitting diode (LED)
- Hiroshi Amano , physicist, co-inventor of the first blue light-emitting diode (LED)
G
- Hiraga Gennai , scholar, inventor and writer
H
- Hakaru Hashimoto , surgeon, first description of Hashimoto's thyroiditis (autoimmune thyroiditis)
- Kazuo Hashimoto
- Shigeo Hirose , snake robot , various other robot variants
- Kotaro Honda , physicist, inventor of magnetic types of steel (1917 KS steel, KS for Kichiei Sumitomo, further developed in 1933 to even better NKS steel, for New KS Steel) for permanent magnets
I.
- Kunitomo Ikkansai
- Kikunae Ikeda , chemist, in 1907 he discovered the fifth sense of taste, which he called umami (from Japanese "umai": "meaty and hearty", "tasty"). In 1908 he isolated crystalline monosodium glutamate from kombu (seaweed) and established the connection between glutamate and the taste-enhancing effect of seaweed. Ikeda's invention is now used as a spice Ajinomoto sold
- Mamoru Imura
- Daisuke Inoue , inventor of the karaoke machine
- Toshio Iue
- Toru Iwatani , inventor of the Pac-Man video game
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- Satori Kato , instant coffee
- Makoto Kobayashi , physicist, Nobel Laureate 2008 - "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry, which predicts the existence of at least three quark families" (together with Toshihide Masukawa)
- Kenji Kawakami , Chindogu
- Hino Kumazo
M.
- Aki Maita , Tamagotchi , 1996
- Toshihide Masukawa , physicist, Nobel laureate 2008 - "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three quark families" (together with Makoto Kobayashi)
- Fujio Masuoka
- Konosuke Matsushita , industrialist who founded the company Matsushita Electric, now renamed Panasonic Corporation, in the suburb of Kadoma of the Japanese metropolis Osaka, near the Keihan railway line to Kyoto. Japanese worship him as the "god of management"
- Kokichi Mikimoto , full round cultured pearl
- Tokushichi Mishima , MKM steel
- Shigeru Miyamoto , computer scientist, Donkey Kong , Super Mario , The Legend of Zelda
- Yasukichi Murakami
N
- Nagai Nagayoshi , Chemist, Synthesis of Methamphetamine , 1893
- Ei-ichi Negishi , chemist, Nobel Laureate 2010 - "for palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings in organic synthesis" (together with Akira Suzuki from Japan and Richard F. Heck from the United States)
- Yoshiro Nakamatsu , in 1952 he received a patent for an early form of floppy disk including a drive. He claims to have licensed about a dozen patents to IBM in 1979, which an IBM spokesman denies. Other patents such as a putt exercise device for golfers, a device for the direct conversion of radiant energy such as light or heat into rotational energy or an energy system for supplying a hydrogen-gasoline mixture in engines show the enormous diversity of NakaMat
- Shuji Nakamura , physicist, developer of the first blue light-emitting diode (LED)
- Takeo Nakasawa , mathematician, theory of the matroid
- Yōichirō Nambu , physicist, Nobel Prize winner 2008 - "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in elementary particle physics"
- Chūhachi Ninomiya
- Jun'ichi Nishizawa , electrical engineer, co-inventor of optical fibers, Static Induction Transistor (SIT), laser diodes, PIN diodes
- Yasujiro Niwa
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- Akira Ogata , chemist, synthesis of methamphetamine in crystalline form
- Takayuki Ohira , megastar planetarium projector
- Katsuhiko Okamoto , Modifications of the Rubik's Cube
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- Kitasato Shibasaburō , physician, in 1897 he and his student Kiyoshi Shiga found the pathogen of dysentery , which was named after him Shigella dysenteriae
- Osamu Shimomura , chemist, Nobel Laureate 2008 - "for the discovery and further development of the green fluorescent protein" (together with the Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien)
- Hideki Shirakawa , chemist, Nobel laureate 2000 - "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers" (together with the American Alan J. Heeger and the New Zealander Alan MacDiarmid)
- Sakuma Shōzan , politician, inventor and scholar of the Edo period
- Kyota Sugimoto , copy of a typewriter
- Nobuchika Sugimura
- Akira Suzuki , chemist, Nobel Laureate 2010 - "for palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings in organic synthesis" (together with the Japanese Ei-ichi Negishi and the US-American Richard F. Heck)
- Umetaro Suzuki , chemist, vitamin B1
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- Ono Taiichi , Toyota - Kanban and Just-in-Time Production Systems 1950 to 1982
- Satoshi Tajiri : creator of Pokémon
- Kenjiro Takayanagi , co-inventor of the black and white television , 1926
- Taro Takemi
- Jokichi Takamine , the first scientist to isolate the hormone adrenaline
- Sakichi Toyoda , inventor of improvements to looms
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- Shintaro Uda , electrical engineer, co-inventor of the Yagi-Uda antenna (together with Hidetsugu Yagi)
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- Takashi Yabe , MAGIC Motor
- Hidetsugu Yagi electrical engineer, co-inventor of the Yagi-Uda antenna (together with Shintaro Uda)
- Shunpei Yamazaki
- Ryōichi Yazu
- Hideki Yukawa , physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1949 - "for his prediction of the existence of mesons based on the theory of nuclear forces "