BIOLOGIST

Craig Venter

1946 - Today

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John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American scientist. He is known for leading one of the first draft sequences of the human genome and led 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 1,191,865 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Craig Venter is the 334th most popular biologist (down from 229th in 2019), the 3,086th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,426th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 60.90

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Craig Venter ranks 334 out of 1,097. Before him are Auguste Chevalier, Alexander von Nordmann, Leizu, George Ord, Hermann Burmeister, and Motoo Kimura. After him are Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Esther Lederberg, Jacob Christian Schäffer, David Bruce, Carl Sigismund Kunth, and Wilder Penfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Craig Venter ranks 228. Before him are Michael Radford, Miguel Reina, Grigory Margulis, Silvio Rodríguez, Alberto Colombo, and Tom Savini. After him are John Waters, Anatoliy Banishevskiy, Robert Metcalfe, Lesley Gore, Ron Kovic, and Marián Čalfa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Craig Venter ranks 3,086 out of 20,380. Before him are Mark Granovetter (1943), Michael J. Smith (1945), Richard C. Tolman (1881), Brad Dexter (1917), Juliette Lewis (1973), and Patricia Krenwinkel (1947). After him are Stephen Kovacevich (1940), Mary L. Cleave (1947), Hetty Green (1834), Gordon Mitchell (1923), Ahmad Jamal (1930), and Althea Gibson (1927).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Craig Venter ranks 59. Before him are David Baltimore (1938), James P. Allison (1948), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), Bruce Beutler (1957), Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), and George Ord (1781). After him are Esther Lederberg (1922), Wilder Penfield (1891), Andrew Fire (1959), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Robert Gallo (1937), and Brian Kobilka (1955).

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