# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nobukazu-teranishi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:25:13.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nobukazu-teranishi"
name: "Nobukazu Teranishi"
slug: "nobukazu-teranishi"
description: "Nobukazu Teranishi  is a Japanese engineer who researches image sensors, and is known for inventing the pinned photodiode, an important component of modern digital cameras. He was one of four recipients of the 2017 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. He worked at NEC Corporation (1978–2000) and Panasonic Corporation (2000–13). As of 2018, he is a professor at the University of Hyogo and at Shizuoka University."
tagline: "Japanese engineer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.273794666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobukazu_Teranishi"
    title: "Nobukazu Teranishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "نوبوكازو تيرانيشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%81_%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BF"
    title: "নোবুকাজু তেরনিশি"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobukazu_Teranishi"
    title: "Nobukazu Teranishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobukazu_Teranishi"
    title: "Nobukazu Teranishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%BA%E8%A5%BF%E4%BF%A1%E4%B8%80"
    title: "寺西信一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28608450"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump