BIOLOGIST

Andrew Fire

1959 - Today

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Andrew Zachary Fire (born April 27, 1959) is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Fire has received more than 195,579 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Andrew Fire is the 346th most popular biologist (up from 387th in 2019), the 3,205th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,783rd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Andrew Fire ranks 346 out of 1,097. Before him are Wilder Penfield, Carl Ludwig Blume, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Abraham Trembley, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, and François-Alphonse Forel. After him are Valerius Cordus, Ivan Regen, Anders Sparrman, Carlo Allioni, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, and Fritz Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Andrew Fire ranks 111. Before him are Renny Harlin, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Vazgen Sargsyan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Baron Waqa, and Anatoly Onoprienko. After him are Thomas Ravelli, James Wong, Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior, Koichi Tanaka, Marcus Miller, and Ralf Moeller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Andrew Fire ranks 3,205 out of 20,380. Before him are Margaret Fuller (1810), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), John Edward Williams (1922), Zach Galifianakis (1969), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), and David Petraeus (1952). After him are Laurie Metcalf (1955), Johnny Carson (1925), Katherine Jackson (1930), Samuel Wilson (1766), Jennifer Love Hewitt (1979), and Kristin Davis (1965).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Andrew Fire ranks 62. Before him are Bruce Beutler (1957), Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), George Ord (1781), Craig Venter (1946), Esther Lederberg (1922), and Wilder Penfield (1891). After him are Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Robert Gallo (1937), Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), Luther Burbank (1849), and Eugene Odum (1913).

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