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BIOLOGIST

Craig Venter

1946 - Today

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John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist and businessman. He is known for leading one of the first draft sequences of the human genome and assembled the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome. Venter founded Celera Genomics, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Craig Venter has received more than 1,133,834 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Craig Venter is the 230th most popular biologist (up from 245th in 2019), the 2,430th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,445th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Craig Venter ranks 230 out of 841. Before him are Bruce Beutler, H. Robert Horvitz, Peter Forsskål, John Lindley, Francisco Varela, and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot. After him are Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Christen C. Raunkiær, Friedrich Loeffler, Joseph Gaertner, Pieter Boddaert, and Hieronymus Bock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Craig Venter ranks 160. Before him are Giuseppe Sinopoli, George Young, Donovan, Norio Yoshimizu, Stig Blomqvist, and Francisco Varela. After him are Jesualdo Ferreira, Tina Aumont, Alejandro Toledo, Krister Henriksson, Alison Steadman, and Jan Kodeš.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Craig Venter ranks 2,430 out of 18,182. Before him are John B. Kelly Sr. (1889), Edwin Hall (1855), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Vesto Slipher (1875), William H. Seward (1801), and Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1945). After him are Melissa Leo (1960), George Reeves (1914), Carl Perkins (1932), Elijah Wood (1981), Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886), and Terry Crews (1968).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Craig Venter ranks 48. Before him are Robert Gallo (1937), David Baltimore (1938), Michael Rosbash (1944), Michael W. Young (1949), Bruce Beutler (1957), and H. Robert Horvitz (1947). After him are James Dwight Dana (1813), Martin Chalfie (1947), David Julius (1955), Wilder Penfield (1891), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), and Carol W. Greider (1961).

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