BIOLOGIST

Francis Collins

1950 - Today

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Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-scientist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He served as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, from 17 August 2009 to 19 December 2021, serving under three presidents. Before being appointed director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project and other genomics research initiatives as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the 27 institutes and centers at NIH. Before joining NHGRI, he earned a reputation as a gene hunter at the University of Michigan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Collins has received more than 1,829,008 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Francis Collins is the 500th most popular biologist (up from 566th in 2019), the 4,523rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,378th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular American Biologist.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Francis Collins ranks 500 out of 1,097Before him are Moritz Wagner, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Charles De Geer, George Prideaux Robert Harris, Jules Émile Planchon, and Karl Friedrich von Gaertner. After him are Edward Blyth, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Adolf Mayer, Aaron Aaronsohn, Achille Valenciennes, and Sébastien Vaillant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Francis Collins ranks 231Before him are Nelsinho Baptista, Iris Berben, Lindsay Duncan, Johan Leysen, Li Yuanchao, and Jon Polito. After him are Omer Beriziky, Thom Barry, Tommy Aldridge, Graham Hancock, Josiane Balasko, and Lino Červar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Francis Collins ranks 4,523 out of 20,380Before him are Keenan Wynn (1916), Zeppo Marx (1901), Robert Kerman (1947), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), Kevin Nash (1959), and Rocky Graziano (1919). After him are Rob Zombie (1965), Lydia Clarke (1923), Sasha Grey (1988), Amanda Plummer (1957), George Segal (1924), and Anna Coleman Ladd (1878).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Francis Collins ranks 72Before him are Martha Chase (1927), Luther Burbank (1849), Eugene Odum (1913), Robert Sapolsky (1957), Aldo Leopold (1887), and Elmer Drew Merrill (1876). After him are Theodore Gill (1837), Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835), Arthur Cronquist (1919), Frederic Clements (1874), Craig Mello (1960), and Alice Hamilton (1869).