BIOLOGIST

Alec Jeffreys

1950 - Today

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Sir Alec John Jeffreys, (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and immigration disputes. Jeffreys is professor of genetics at the University of Leicester, and became an honorary freeman of the City of Leicester on 26 November 1992. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alec Jeffreys has received more than 881,366 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Alec Jeffreys is the 804th most popular biologist (up from 884th in 2019), the 3,940th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,723rd in 2019) and the 111th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 880k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alec Jeffreys ranks 804 out of 1,097. Before him are William Townsend Aiton, Francisco Manuel Blanco, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, Marie-Anne Libert, Robert Trivers, and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez. After him are Thomas Thomson, Étienne Pierre Ventenat, Johann Christoph Wendland, Yang Zhongjian, Herbert Copeland, and Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Alec Jeffreys ranks 421. Before him are Viktor Rashchupkin, Kessai Note, Shahram Nazeri, Ilinka Mitreva, Zvonimir Serdarušić, and Fran Lebowitz. After him are Arianna Huffington, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Savio Hon, Hugo Hovenkamp, Lee Tamahori, and Peter Gould.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alec Jeffreys ranks 3,940 out of 8,785. Before him are Asa Butterfield (1997), Joanna Pettet (1942), Joe Mercer (1914), Jim Capaldi (1944), Gary Daniels (1963), and Ælfric of Eynsham (955). After him are Murray Walker (1923), Thomas Thomson (1817), Eric Thompson (1919), Lachlan Macquarie (1762), Albert Lee (1943), and Thomas Picton (1758).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Alec Jeffreys ranks 111. Before him are James Sowerby (1757), William Thomas Blanford (1832), Henry Baker (1698), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), and William Townsend Aiton (1766). After him are Thomas Thomson (1817), George Edwards (1694), William Hemsley (1843), Herbert Giles (1845), Sydney Parkinson (1745), and Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800).

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