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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 164,040 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Alfred G. Gilman is the 223rd most popular chemist (up from 262nd in 2019), the 1,494th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,800th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Chemist.

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  • 47

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alfred G. Gilman ranks 223 out of 509. Before him are Kaoru Ishikawa, Jacques Dubochet, Leo Baekeland, Michael Smith, Arieh Warshel, and John Pople. After him are Herbert C. Brown, Franz Karl Achard, John Cornforth, Charles J. Pedersen, Friedrich Sertürner, and William Lipscomb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Alfred G. Gilman ranks 93. Before him are Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., Robert Wilson, William Nordhaus, Carlo Maria Viganò, Josip Skoblar, and Princess Muna al-Hussein. After him are Jacqueline Boyer, David Gross, John E. Walker, Martha Stewart, Lella Lombardi, and Barbet Schroeder. Among people deceased in 2015, Alfred G. Gilman ranks 63. Before him are Louis Jourdan, Yitzhak Navon, Boris Nemtsov, Assia Djebar, Maureen O'Hara, and Kurt Masur. After him are Gabriele Ferzetti, Setsuko Hara, Richard F. Heck, Cynthia Lennon, Geraldine McEwan, and Rod Taylor.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred G. Gilman ranks 1,494 out of 18,182. Before him are Margaret Sanger (1879), Johns Hopkins (1795), Patrick McGoohan (1928), Ma Barker (1873), Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925), and Lloyd Bridges (1913). After him are Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), George Papandreou (1952), Richard Ramirez (1960), Robert J. Shiller (1946), George Stevens (1904), and Sonny Rollins (1930).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Alfred G. Gilman ranks 45. Before him are F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), John Fenn (1917), Robert H. Grubbs (1942), William Standish Knowles (1917), Robert Curl (1933), and Elias James Corey (1928). After him are William Lipscomb (1919), Richard F. Heck (1931), Paul L. Modrich (1946), Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), Edward W. Morley (1838), and Donald J. Cram (1919).

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