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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. He 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 814,782 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alec Jeffreys is the 885th most popular biologist (down from 765th in 2019), the 4,735th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,935th in 2019) and the 148th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 27

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  • 1.81

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  • 4.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alec Jeffreys ranks 885 out of 841Before him are Charles Tate Regan, George R. Price, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, Lancelot Hogben, Carl Meissner, and Johann Georg Wagler. After him are William Kirby, John Kunkel Small, Peter Watts, Akhtar Hameed Khan, Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, and Samuel Garman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Alec Jeffreys ranks 487Before him are Maria Ewing, Roma Ryan, Nobuo Fujishima, Eijun Kiyokumo, John Byrne, and José Bono. After him are Anna Deavere Smith, Gianfranco Brancatelli, Themba Masuku, Roland Andersson, Omer Beriziky, and José Carlos Serrão.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alec Jeffreys ranks 4,735 out of 7,765Before him are Tommy Flowers (1905), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (1990), Sonya Walger (1974), Jessie J (1988), Robert Hamer (1911), and Dick King-Smith (1922). After him are Harry Lloyd (1983), Julie Driscoll Tippetts (1947), William Kirby (1759), Jet Harris (1939), Mike Hodges (1932), and C. V. Boys (1855).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Alec Jeffreys ranks 148Before him are Charles Walter De Vis (1829), Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), William Yarrell (1784), Bryan Sykes (1947), Charles Tate Regan (1878), and Lancelot Hogben (1895). After him are William Kirby (1759), Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), John Claudius Loudon (1783), David Lack (1910), Sydney Parkinson (1745), and Archibald Menzies (1754).