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Bruce Alberts

1938 - Today

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Bruce Michael Alberts (born April 14, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American biochemist and the Emeritus Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education at the University of California, San Francisco. He has done important work studying the protein complexes which enable chromosome replication when living cells divide. He is known as an original author of the "canonical, influential, and best-selling scientific textbook" Molecular Biology of the Cell, and served as Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruce Alberts has received more than 203,354 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bruce Alberts is the 550th most popular chemist, the 9,446th most popular biography from United States and the 94th most popular American Chemist.

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  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Bruce Alberts ranks 550 out of 602. Before him are Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Jürgen Hennig, Henry Eyring, Frederick G. Donnan, John Roebuck, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski. After him are Martin Kamen, J. L. B. Smith, Florence B. Seibert, Mildred Cohn, Mary L. Good, and Ching Wan Tang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Bruce Alberts ranks 506. Before him are Geoff Murphy, Jorge Manicera, Hampton Fancher, Giuseppe Merisi, Galina Gorokhova, and Giorgio Puia. After him are Fritz d'Orey, David Owen, Angelo Damiano, Miguel Jones, Paul Bartel, and Jeanne Ashworth.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bruce Alberts ranks 9,446 out of 20,380. Before him are Lance Larson (1940), Don Dokken (1953), Ted Lange (1948), Granville Woods (1856), Steven Bochco (1943), and Grant Imahara (1970). After him are Naomi Novik (1973), Debbie Meyer (1952), Bette Nesmith Graham (1924), Benjamin Harrison V (1726), Janis Paige (1922), and Burn Gorman (1974).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Bruce Alberts ranks 94. Before him are Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), Karen Wetterhahn (1948), Robert Jarvik (1946), Wallace Smith Broecker (1931), Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), and Helen Murray Free (1923). After him are Florence B. Seibert (1897), Mildred Cohn (1913), Mary L. Good (1931), Bruce Ames (1928), Anna J. Harrison (1912), and Mary Engle Pennington (1872).

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