1950 - Today
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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Among biologists, Alec Jeffreys ranks 885 out of 841. Before 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.
1878 - 1943
HPI: 42.04
Rank: 879
1922 - 1975
HPI: 41.99
Rank: 880
1825 - 1908
HPI: 41.92
Rank: 881
1895 - 1975
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 882
1800 - 1874
HPI: 41.83
Rank: 883
1800 - 1832
HPI: 41.81
Rank: 884
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 885
1759 - 1850
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 886
1869 - 1938
HPI: 41.63
Rank: 887
1958 - Present
HPI: 41.61
Rank: 888
1914 - 1999
HPI: 41.61
Rank: 889
1888 - 1948
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 890
1843 - 1927
HPI: 41.56
Rank: 891
Among people born in 1950, Alec Jeffreys ranks 487. Before 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.
1950 - 2022
HPI: 42.02
Rank: 481
1950 - Present
HPI: 42.02
Rank: 482
1950 - Present
HPI: 42.01
Rank: 483
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.98
Rank: 484
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.82
Rank: 485
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.80
Rank: 486
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 487
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 488
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.73
Rank: 489
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.70
Rank: 490
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 491
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.62
Rank: 492
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.58
Rank: 493
Among people born in United Kingdom, Alec Jeffreys ranks 4,735 out of 7,765. Before 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).
1905 - 1998
HPI: 41.80
Rank: 4,729
1990 - Present
HPI: 41.79
Rank: 4,730
1974 - Present
HPI: 41.79
Rank: 4,731
1988 - Present
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 4,732
1911 - 1963
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 4,733
1922 - 2011
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 4,734
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 4,735
1983 - Present
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 4,736
1947 - Present
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 4,737
1759 - 1850
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 4,738
1939 - 2011
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 4,739
1932 - 2022
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 4,740
1855 - 1944
HPI: 41.75
Rank: 4,741
Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Alec Jeffreys ranks 148. Before 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).
1829 - 1915
HPI: 42.49
Rank: 142
1854 - 1934
HPI: 42.48
Rank: 143
1784 - 1856
HPI: 42.37
Rank: 144
1947 - 2020
HPI: 42.05
Rank: 145
1878 - 1943
HPI: 42.04
Rank: 146
1895 - 1975
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 147
1950 - Present
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 148
1759 - 1850
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 149
1902 - 1985
HPI: 41.36
Rank: 150
1783 - 1843
HPI: 41.30
Rank: 151
1910 - 1973
HPI: 41.29
Rank: 152
1745 - 1771
HPI: 41.14
Rank: 153
1754 - 1842
HPI: 41.12
Rank: 154