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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 1,718,853 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Francis Collins is the 567th most popular biologist (down from 498th in 2019), the 5,390th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,566th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular American Biologist.

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  • 48.64

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Francis Collins ranks 567 out of 841. Before him are Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Carl Alexander Clerck, Joseph Banks Rhine, Franz Meyen, Tomitaro Makino, and Frederic Clements. After him are Gustav Radde, Achille Richard, Alfred Sturtevant, Oswald Heer, Alfred Newton, and John Murray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Francis Collins ranks 262. Before him are Vladimir Megre, Harriet Walter, Keizo Imai, Volkan Bozkır, Angry Grandpa, and Jurica Jerković. After him are Om Puri, Carlos Caszely, Anémone, Oswaldo de Oliveira, Carlo Verdone, and Maurilio De Zolt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Francis Collins ranks 5,390 out of 18,182. Before him are John Hawkes (1959), Daniel Silva (1960), Armie Hammer (1986), Rey Mysterio (1974), William Cohen (1940), and Frederic Clements (1874). After him are Millie Perkins (1938), Roy Haynes (1925), Fred Hampton (1948), James Farentino (1938), Bessie Love (1898), and Phyllis Smith (1951).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Francis Collins ranks 83. Before him are Robert Sapolsky (1957), Mary Agnes Chase (1869), Paul R. Ehrlich (1932), Richard Lewontin (1929), Joseph Banks Rhine (1895), and Frederic Clements (1874). After him are Alfred Sturtevant (1891), Asa Gray (1810), Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), Thomas Say (1787), Theodore Gill (1837), and Jack Horner (1946).

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