BIOLOGIST

Christian Drosten

1972 - Today

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Christian Heinrich Maria Drosten (German: [ˈkʁɪs.ti̯an ˈdʁɔs.tn̩] , born 1972) is a German virologist whose research focus is on novel viruses (emergent viruses). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Drosten has received more than 335,170 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Drosten is the 1,085th most popular biologist (down from 902nd in 2019), the 6,176th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,809th in 2019) and the 194th most popular German Biologist.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Christian Drosten ranks 1,085 out of 1,097. Before him are Margaret Morse Nice, Jill Bolte Taylor, Angelika Amon, Matt Ridley, Pamela C. Rasmussen, and David Bellamy. After him are Peter Piot, Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, Ben Barres, Gita Ramjee, Peter Dodson, and PZ Myers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Christian Drosten ranks 693. Before him are Giovanni Tedesco, Rasoul Khadem, Anika Noni Rose, Hiroshige Yanagimoto, Vyacheslav Kozlov, and William Goldsmith. After him are Theodore Whitmore, Takahiro Yamada, Kjersti Plätzer, Michelle McLean, Steffi Jones, and Gabriela Firea.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Drosten ranks 6,176 out of 7,253. Before him are Hannah Herzsprung (1981), Petra Rossner (1966), Moritz Wagner (1997), Christa Kinshofer (1961), Andreas Wecker (1970), and Jermaine Jones (1981). After him are Ronny Weller (1969), Hans Dorfner (1965), Johannes Vetter (1993), Sophie Charlotte (1989), Philipp Max (1993), and Steffi Jones (1972).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Christian Drosten ranks 194. Before him are Rudolf Schlechter (1872), Alexander Wendt (1958), Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (1862), Tilly Edinger (1897), Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz (1834), and Carl H. Eigenmann (1863).

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