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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 joined the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Distinguished Professor in the department of molecular, cell, and developmental biology in October 2020. 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 302,548 page views. Her biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Carol W. Greider is the 292nd most popular biologist (up from 665th in 2019), the 2,923rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,115th in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 54.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carol W. Greider ranks 292 out of 841. Before her are Wilhelm Peters, Nikolai Severtzov, John Hughlings Jackson, Othenio Abel, René Louiche Desfontaines, and Josif Pančić. After her are John Gould, Joel Asaph Allen, Jack W. Szostak, Phillip Allen Sharp, Ludwik Fleck, and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Carol W. Greider ranks 78. Before her are Daniele Massaro, Heather Locklear, Alexandre Desplat, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Lea Thompson, and Amr Diab. After her are The Edge, Guido Buchwald, Andy Fletcher, Eric Stoltz, Chad Smith, and Bonnie Hunt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carol W. Greider ranks 2,923 out of 18,182. Before her are Robert Garrett (1875), Nichelle Nichols (1932), Frank Stallone (1950), George Huntington (1850), Clarence Brown (1890), and Judith Resnik (1949). After her are Audre Lorde (1934), Stephen Smale (1930), Terence McKenna (1946), J. P. Guilford (1897), Don Norman (1935), and Kurtwood Smith (1943).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Carol W. Greider ranks 54. Before her are Craig Venter (1946), James Dwight Dana (1813), Martin Chalfie (1947), David Julius (1955), Wilder Penfield (1891), and Clair Cameron Patterson (1922). After her are Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), James Rothman (1950), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), and Eugene Odum (1913).

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