BIOLOGIST

Carol W. Greider

1961 - Today

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Carolyn Widney Greider (born April 15, 1961) is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate. She is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Greider discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984, while she was a graduate student of Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carol W. Greider has received more than 319,950 page views. Her biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Carol W. Greider is the 258th most popular biologist (up from 291st in 2019), the 2,375th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,916th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 320k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 72

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carol W. Greider ranks 258 out of 1,097. Before her are Morten Thrane Brünnich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Eduard Rüppell, and Michael Rosbash. After her are Sergei Winogradsky, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, James Bond, John Lindley, and Henrietta Lacks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Carol W. Greider ranks 69. Before her are Martin Gore, Luis de la Fuente, Íngrid Betancourt, Wade Williams, Guido Buchwald, and Alexandre Desplat. After her are David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, Ghislaine Maxwell, Iain Glen, Jared Harris, Tite, and Heather Locklear.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carol W. Greider ranks 2,375 out of 20,380. Before her are Pauley Perrette (1969), Roger Myerson (1951), Michael Rosbash (1944), Johnston McCulley (1883), Royal Rife (1888), and Joanna Cassidy (1945). After her are Betty Robinson (1911), Andy Williams (1927), A. L. Kroeber (1876), Mos Def (1973), J. Allen Hynek (1910), and Blythe Danner (1943).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Carol W. Greider ranks 48. Before her are George Smith (1941), Charles M. Rice (1952), Howard Martin Temin (1934), James Rothman (1950), Martin Chalfie (1947), and Michael Rosbash (1944). After her are James Bond (1900), Henrietta Lacks (1920), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), David Julius (1955), David Baltimore (1938), and James P. Allison (1948).

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