BIOLOGIST

David Julius

1955 - Today

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David Jay Julius (born November 4, 1955) is an American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on molecular mechanisms of pain sensation and heat, including the characterization of the TRPV1 and TRPM8 receptors that detect capsaicin, menthol, and temperature. He is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Julius won the 2010 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine and the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Julius has received more than 304,061 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). David Julius is the 269th most popular biologist (down from 249th in 2019), the 2,520th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,597th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Julius ranks 269 out of 1,097. Before him are John Lindley, Henrietta Lacks, Erik Pontoppidan, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Eric F. Wieschaus, and Francis Darwin. After him are Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Christen C. Raunkiær, Peter Forsskål, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Jérôme Lejeune, and Jack W. Szostak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, David Julius ranks 103. Before him are Debra Winger, Akira Nishino, Dominique Pinon, Jeff Daniels, Ángela Molina, and Matthias Jabs. After him are Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, Xander Berkeley, Thomas C. Südhof, Peter Gallagher, Miguel Ferrer, and Simon Rattle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Julius ranks 2,520 out of 20,380. Before him are Ann Dunham (1942), Gene Deitch (1924), Cornell Woolrich (1903), Bill Viola (1951), Heather Locklear (1961), and Lynda Carter (1951). After him are Cyd Charisse (1922), Richard Roundtree (1942), Pam Grier (1949), George Chakiris (1934), Jane Darwell (1879), and Annie Sprinkle (1954).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, David Julius ranks 52. Before him are Martin Chalfie (1947), Michael Rosbash (1944), Carol W. Greider (1961), James Bond (1900), Henrietta Lacks (1920), and Eric F. Wieschaus (1947). After him are David Baltimore (1938), James P. Allison (1948), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), Bruce Beutler (1957), Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), and George Ord (1781).

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