BIOLOGIST

Edward B. Lewis

1918 - 2004

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Edward Butts Lewis (May 20, 1918 – July 21, 2004) was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward B. Lewis has received more than 159,557 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward B. Lewis is the 117th most popular biologist (up from 131st in 2019), the 1,091st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,341st in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Edward B. Lewis by language

Over the past year Edward B. Lewis has had the most page views in the with 14,447 views, followed by Chinese (2,981), and Spanish (2,798). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Irish (80.51%), Low Saxon (46.35%), and Swahili (27.62%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edward B. Lewis ranks 117 out of 1,097. Before him are Alfred Hershey, John Gurdon, Aimé Bonpland, Hans Christian Gram, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and Carl Woese. After him are Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Sydney Brenner, Har Gobind Khorana, Macfarlane Burnet, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and Martinus Beijerinck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Edward B. Lewis ranks 44. Before him are Jerome Karle, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Julian Schwinger, Hans Scholl, and Patricio Aylwin. After him are Betty Ford, Birgit Nilsson, Günther Rall, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Paul D. Boyer, and Richard Winters. Among people deceased in 2004, Edward B. Lewis ranks 35. Before him are Ingrid Thulin, Sune Bergström, Estée Lauder, Julius Axelrod, Thomas Klestil, and Jerry Goldsmith. After him are Fanny Blankers-Koen, Andriyan Nikolayev, John Vane, Theo van Gogh, Charles Sweeney, and Godfrey Hounsfield.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward B. Lewis ranks 1,091 out of 20,380. Before him are Mike Pence (1959), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Wesley Snipes (1962), David Soul (1943), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), and Carl Woese (1928). After him are Betty Ford (1918), Jon Bon Jovi (1962), Brendan Fraser (1968), Arthur Ashe (1943), Joanne Woodward (1930), and Betty White (1922).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Edward B. Lewis ranks 20. Before him are John Franklin Enders (1897), Nettie Stevens (1861), Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Edward Tatum (1909), Alfred Hershey (1908), and Carl Woese (1928). After him are E. O. Wilson (1929), Gerald Edelman (1929), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), J. Michael Bishop (1936), George Davis Snell (1903), and Leland H. Hartwell (1939).

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