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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 183,845 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Andrew Fire is the 388th most popular biologist (up from 446th in 2019), the 3,793rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,044th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 51.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Andrew Fire ranks 388 out of 841. Before him are Juan Ignacio Molina, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Armen Takhtajan, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Edward Daniel Clarke, and Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied. After him are Anders Dahl, Olof Swartz, Moritz Wagner, Zhores Medvedev, Georg August Schweinfurth, and Ivan Regen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Andrew Fire ranks 120. Before him are Vazgen Sargsyan, James Wong, Ralf Moeller, Kokhir Rasulzoda, Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, and Marcus Miller. After him are Michael Kors, Neal Stephenson, Takaaki Kajita, Catherine Keener, Patrick Bruel, and Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Andrew Fire ranks 3,793 out of 18,182. Before him are Richie Havens (1941), Linda Darnell (1923), Glenn Curtiss (1878), David D. Friedman (1945), Lunalilo (1835), and Ray Dolby (1933). After him are Richard Hartshorne (1899), Frank Zamboni (1901), William Goldman (1931), William Conrad (1920), Brett Cullen (1956), and Rosalind Russell (1907).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Andrew Fire ranks 64. Before him are James Rothman (1950), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), Eugene Odum (1913), Luther Burbank (1849), Harold E. Varmus (1939), and Barry Commoner (1917). After him are Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), Sewall Wright (1889), Esther Lederberg (1922), and Craig Mello (1960).

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