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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 209,425 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Brian Kobilka is the 395th most popular biologist (up from 524th in 2019), the 3,828th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,759th in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 210k

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  • 51.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Brian Kobilka ranks 395 out of 841. Before him are Anders Dahl, Olof Swartz, Moritz Wagner, Zhores Medvedev, Georg August Schweinfurth, and Ivan Regen. After him are George Bentham, Ludwig Reichenbach, Julius von Sachs, Karl Eichwald, Clemens von Pirquet, and Henri Milne-Edwards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Brian Kobilka ranks 144. Before him are Alan Sokal, Paul Greengrass, Mika Kaurismäki, Edwin Moses, Daniel Bertoni, and Yasmina Khadra. After him are Tommy Wiseau, Jean-Hugues Anglade, William Forsythe, Anthony Horowitz, Jimmy Smits, and Vladimir Sorokin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Brian Kobilka ranks 3,828 out of 18,182. Before him are Norman Taurog (1899), Thomas E. Dewey (1902), Ryan Phillippe (1974), John Doman (1945), Suge Knight (1965), and William Cranch Bond (1789). After him are Seth Carlo Chandler (1846), Scott Bradley (1891), Amy Irving (1953), Elvin Jones (1927), Dorothy Dandridge (1922), and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (1918).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Brian Kobilka ranks 65. Before him are Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), Eugene Odum (1913), Luther Burbank (1849), Harold E. Varmus (1939), Barry Commoner (1917), and Andrew Fire (1959). After him are Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), Sewall Wright (1889), Esther Lederberg (1922), Craig Mello (1960), and Garrett Hardin (1915).

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