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Eric Betzig

1960 - Today

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Robert Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960) is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a senior fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia. Betzig has worked to develop the field of fluorescence microscopy and photoactivated localization microscopy. He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy" along with Stefan Hell and fellow Cornell alumnus William E. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Betzig has received more than 257,832 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Eric Betzig is the 424th most popular chemist (down from 418th in 2019), the 4,507th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,684th in 2019) and the 79th most popular American Chemist.

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  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.34

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  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Eric Betzig ranks 424 out of 602. Before him are Andrés Manuel del Río, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Kathleen Lonsdale, Michael Grätzel, and Peter Atkins. After him are Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Theodor Curtius, Nikolay Beketov, Roy J. Plunkett, Morris Travers, and Walter Noddack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Eric Betzig ranks 156. Before him are Adam Clayton, Yu Hua, Uwe Bein, Franz Welser-Möst, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, and Reed Hastings. After him are Ko Wen-je, Buster Douglas, Igor Sechin, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Rimas Kurtinaitis, and Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eric Betzig ranks 4,507 out of 20,380. Before him are Jimmy Smits (1955), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), George Duke (1946), Brian Keith (1921), Stella Stevens (1936), and Paul Kantner (1941). After him are Chris McCandless (1968), Gilbert Gottfried (1955), Link Wray (1929), Moe Tucker (1944), Adam Riess (1969), and Bryce Dallas Howard (1981).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Eric Betzig ranks 79. Before him are Albert Ghiorso (1915), Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), George Washington Carver (1864), Jennifer Doudna (1964), John Tukey (1915), and Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966). After him are Roy J. Plunkett (1910), Myrtle Bachelder (1908), James B. Conant (1893), Donella Meadows (1941), James Crafts (1839), and Maclyn McCarty (1911).

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