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Toyohiro Akiyama is a retired Japanese TV journalist and professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design. In December 1990, he spent seven days aboard the Mir space station. He became the first person of Japanese nationality to fly in space, and his space mission was the second spaceflight to be commercially sponsored and funded. Akiyama was also the first civilian to fly aboard a commercial spac…
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culture · Japanese TV journalist and cosmonaut (born 1942) · journalist · astronaut · reporter · engineer · Research Cosmonaut · also Toyohiro Akiyama, Akiyama
Born 22 July 1942 · Q285944
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Published “First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 1,765 times.
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Published “First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 1,765 times.
Published “Photocatalytic solar hydrogen production from water on a 100-m2 scale” in Nature — cited 1,723 times.
Published “A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes” in Nature Genetics — cited 2,176 times.
Published “Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes” in Nature — cited 2,439 times.
Published “First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,674 times.
Published “Inhibition of shoot branching by new terpenoid plant hormones” in Nature — cited 1,902 times.
Published “Stronger Brønsted Acids” in Chemical Reviews — cited 2,265 times.
Published “TDP-43 is a component of ubiquitin-positive tau-negative inclusions in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis” in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications — cited 2,463 times.
Published “Plant sesquiterpenes induce hyphal branching in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi” in Nature — cited 2,147 times.
Published “Inflammation and Alzheimer's disease” in Neurobiology of Aging — cited 3,595 times.
Because he disagreed with the active commercialization of television
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Published “Genistein, a specific inhibitor of tyrosine-specific protein kinases.” in Journal of Biological Chemistry — cited 2,909 times.
Born 1942-07-22.
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