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Alfred G. Gilman

1941 - 2015

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Alfred Goodman Gilman (July 1, 1941 – December 23, 2015) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. He and Martin Rodbell shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells." Gilman was the son of Alfred Gilman, who co-authored Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics with Louis S. Goodman, from whom his middle name came. He earned a BA in biology with major in biochemistry from Yale University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred G. Gilman has received more than 173,713 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Alfred G. Gilman is the 223rd most popular chemist, the 1,398th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,494th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Chemist.

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.21

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  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alfred G. Gilman ranks 223 out of 602. Before him are Donald J. Cram, Stephanie Kwolek, Franz Karl Achard, Derek Barton, Aaron Klug, and Rodney Robert Porter. After him are William Lipscomb, Herbert C. Brown, Jacques Dubochet, Hartmut Michel, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and S. P. L. Sørensen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Alfred G. Gilman ranks 94. Before him are Kenji Tochio, Eduardo Duhalde, Stephen Frears, Anne Rice, Martin Evans, and Suzanne Mubarak. After him are Igor Smirnov, Toyo Ito, Jacqueline Boyer, Michael Stuart Brown, Neil Diamond, and David Gross. Among people deceased in 2015, Alfred G. Gilman ranks 66. Before him are Maureen O'Hara, Zhelyu Zhelev, Rose Francine Rogombé, Setsuko Hara, Ben E. King, and Udo Lattek. After him are Georges Wolinski, Gabriele Ferzetti, Chantal Akerman, Robert Loggia, Khaled al-Asaad, and Kurt Masur.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred G. Gilman ranks 1,398 out of 20,380. Before him are Dwight Schultz (1947), John Brown (1800), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), Dirk Benedict (1945), Don Cherry (1936), and Josiah Warren (1798). After him are William Lipscomb (1919), Solomon Northup (1808), Jack Dempsey (1895), Robert A. Dahl (1915), Sarah Knauss (1880), and Peter Weller (1947).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Alfred G. Gilman ranks 45. Before him are William Standish Knowles (1917), John Fenn (1917), Wallace Carothers (1896), Alan J. Heeger (1936), Donald J. Cram (1919), and Stephanie Kwolek (1923). After him are William Lipscomb (1919), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Elias James Corey (1928), Paul Lauterbur (1929), and Thomas A. Steitz (1940).

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