# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akira-yoshino
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:14:16.061Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/akira-yoshino"
name: "Akira Yoshino"
slug: "akira-yoshino"
description: "Akira Yoshino  is a Japanese chemist. He is a fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation and a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya. He created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery, which became used widely in cellular phones and notebook computers. Yoshino was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and John B. Goodenough."
tagline: "Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Akira_Yoshino_20170920_(cropped_2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-01-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.3
  momentum:             3.319838134955851
  historical:           22.1908
  currentAttention:     16.5016501650165
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump