1918 - 2007
Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University. He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, an L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, and the National Medal of Science in 1979. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Kornberg has received more than 326,543 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Arthur Kornberg is the 175th most popular chemist (up from 208th in 2019), the 1,211th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,452nd in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Chemist.
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Among chemists, Arthur Kornberg ranks 175 out of 509. Before him are Katalin Karikó, Wallace Carothers, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, John Vane, Rodney Robert Porter, and Stephanie Kwolek. After him are George Porter, Georg Wittig, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Max Perutz.
1955 - Present
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 169
1896 - 1937
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 170
1818 - 1892
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 171
1927 - 2004
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 172
1917 - 1985
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 173
1923 - 2014
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 174
1918 - 2007
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 175
1920 - 2002
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 176
1897 - 1987
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 177
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 178
1802 - 1876
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 179
1777 - 1857
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 180
1914 - 2002
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 181
Among people born in 1918, Arthur Kornberg ranks 53. Before him are Sam Walton, Hans Scholl, Paul D. Boyer, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Julian Schwinger, and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. After him are John Forsythe, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Edward B. Lewis, Betty Ford, François Tombalbaye, and Rosemary Kennedy. Among people deceased in 2007, Arthur Kornberg ranks 37. Before him are Stanley Miller, Lois Maxwell, Marcheline Bertrand, Henri Troyat, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, and Vladimir Kryuchkov. After him are Paul Watzlawick, Jane Wyman, Robert Jordan, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Gaston Thorn.
1918 - 1992
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 47
1918 - 1943
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 48
1918 - 2018
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 49
1918 - 1990
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 50
1918 - 1994
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 51
1918 - 2012
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 52
1918 - 2007
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 53
1918 - 2010
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 54
1918 - 2008
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 55
1918 - 2004
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 56
1918 - 2011
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 57
1918 - 1975
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 58
1918 - 2005
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 59
1930 - 2007
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 31
1927 - 2007
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 32
1950 - 2007
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 33
1911 - 2007
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 34
1932 - 2007
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 35
1924 - 2007
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 36
1918 - 2007
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 37
1921 - 2007
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 38
1917 - 2007
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 39
1948 - 2007
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 40
1912 - 2007
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 41
1933 - 2007
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 42
1928 - 2007
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 43
Among people born in United States, Arthur Kornberg ranks 1,211 out of 18,182. Before him are Stanley Kramer (1913), Stephanie Kwolek (1923), Harry Harlow (1905), Idina Menzel (1971), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), and Bruce Dern (1936). After him are Mike Markkula (1942), Mary Jackson (1921), Rodney King (1965), John Gotti (1940), Nicholas Ray (1911), and Vera Miles (1929).
1913 - 2001
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 1,205
1923 - 2014
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 1,206
1905 - 1981
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 1,207
1971 - Present
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 1,208
1920 - 2012
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 1,209
1936 - Present
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 1,210
1918 - 2007
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 1,211
1942 - Present
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 1,212
1921 - 2005
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 1,213
1965 - 2012
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 1,214
1940 - 2002
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 1,215
1911 - 1979
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 1,216
1929 - Present
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 1,217
Among chemists born in United States, Arthur Kornberg ranks 34. Before him are Paul Flory (1910), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Paul D. Boyer (1918), Robert S. Mulliken (1896), Wallace Carothers (1896), and Stephanie Kwolek (1923). After him are Walter Gilbert (1932), Alan J. Heeger (1936), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Julius Axelrod (1912), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), and John Fenn (1917).
1910 - 1985
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 28
1921 - 2006
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 29
1918 - 2018
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 30
1896 - 1986
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 31
1896 - 1937
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 32
1923 - 2014
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 33
1918 - 2007
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 34
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 35
1936 - Present
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 36
1914 - 2006
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 37
1912 - 2004
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 38
1927 - 2012
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 39
1917 - 2010
HPI: 60.21
Rank: 40