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Craig Mello

1960 - Today

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Craig Cameron Mello (born October 18, 1960) is an American biologist and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. This research was conducted at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and published in 1998. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Craig Mello has received more than 179,788 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Craig Mello is the 473rd most popular biologist (up from 624th in 2019), the 4,650th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,663rd in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 180k

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  • 50.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Craig Mello ranks 473 out of 841. Before him are Jacob Sturm, Richard Lydekker, Alexander Kovalevsky, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, and Joseph Paul Gaimard. After him are Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Garrett Hardin, Petter Adolf Karsten, Bertha Lutz, René Dubos, and Sébastien Vaillant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Craig Mello ranks 145. Before him are Steve Bruce, Mehmet Oz, Isabel Coixet, Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, Richard Linklater, and Elizabeth Perkins. After him are Mart Laar, Eric Betzig, Stephen Daldry, Franz Welser-Möst, Mohamed Bazoum, and Bako Sahakyan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Craig Mello ranks 4,650 out of 18,182. Before him are W. C. Handy (1873), Kid Ory (1886), Stephen McKinley Henderson (1949), Herbert Ross (1927), Norman Lloyd (1914), and Hank Mobley (1930). After him are Catherine Hicks (1951), Black Kettle (1803), Jennie Garth (1972), Thurgood Marshall (1908), Hal Moore (1922), and Bill Irwin (1950).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Craig Mello ranks 70. Before him are Andrew Fire (1959), Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), Sewall Wright (1889), and Esther Lederberg (1922). After him are Garrett Hardin (1915), Aldo Leopold (1887), Charles David Keeling (1928), David Starr Jordan (1851), Arthur Cronquist (1919), and George C. Williams (1926).

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