BIOLOGIST

Brian Kobilka

1955 - Today

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Brian Kent Kobilka (born May 30, 1955) is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the workings of G protein-coupled receptors. He is currently a professor in the department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also a co-founder of ConfometRx, a biotechnology company focusing on G protein-coupled receptors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Kobilka has received more than 230,774 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Brian Kobilka is the 375th most popular biologist (up from 394th in 2019), the 3,455th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,818th in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Brian Kobilka ranks 375 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Eugen Fischer, Daniel Solander, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, and René Lesson. After him are John Stevens Henslow, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Theodor Boveri, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Joy Adamson, and Antonio José Cavanilles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Brian Kobilka ranks 151. Before him are Khalid al-Islambouli, Kelsey Grammer, Sándor Puhl, Olivier Assayas, Israel Katz, and Moses Malone. After him are Billy Blanks, Ildikó Enyedi, Sherif Ismail, John X of Antioch, Wayne Knight, and Charles Martinet.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Brian Kobilka ranks 3,455 out of 20,380. Before him are Tony Musante (1936), Benny Golson (1929), Bonnie Aarons (1979), Madeleine Astor (1893), Don Alden Adams (1925), and Scott Bakula (1954). After him are Percy Sledge (1941), Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822), Stephen Curry (1988), Alexander Cartwright (1820), Gig Young (1913), and Martin Ritt (1914).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Brian Kobilka ranks 65. Before him are Craig Venter (1946), Esther Lederberg (1922), Wilder Penfield (1891), Andrew Fire (1959), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), and Robert Gallo (1937). After him are Martha Chase (1927), Luther Burbank (1849), Eugene Odum (1913), Robert Sapolsky (1957), Aldo Leopold (1887), and Elmer Drew Merrill (1876).

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