1950 - Today
Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. 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 977,135 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Francis Collins is the 498th most popular biologist (down from 386th in 2019), the 4,568th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,220th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Biologist.
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Among biologists, Francis Collins ranks 498 out of 844. Before him are Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Friedrich Boie, Edward Blyth, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Emil Racoviță, and Paul Friedrich August Ascherson. After him are Jacob Sturm, Eugène Simon, Gerrit Smith Miller, Samuel Frederick Gray, Josef August Schultes, and Petter Adolf Karsten.
1817 - 1908
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 492
1789 - 1870
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 493
1810 - 1873
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 494
1835 - 1899
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 495
1868 - 1947
HPI: 61.43
Rank: 496
1834 - 1913
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 497
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 498
1771 - 1848
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 499
1848 - 1924
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 500
1869 - 1956
HPI: 61.31
Rank: 501
1766 - 1828
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 502
1773 - 1831
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 503
1834 - 1917
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 504
Among people born in 1950, Francis Collins ranks 215. Before him are Dann Florek, Martine Aubry, James Redfield, Rajinikanth, Bruce McGill, and Thomas Gottschalk. After him are Yang Jiechi, Jadranka Stojaković, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Richard Galliano, Jim Beaver, and Krzysztof Wielicki.
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 209
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 210
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.43
Rank: 211
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 212
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 213
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 214
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 215
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 216
1950 - 2016
HPI: 61.31
Rank: 217
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 218
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 219
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.21
Rank: 220
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.21
Rank: 221
Among people born in United States, Francis Collins ranks 4,568 out of 15,968. Before him are Julie Bowen (1970), Colm Feore (1958), Buster Douglas (1960), Godfrey Reggio (1940), Ed Heinemann (1908), and Dennis Frederiksen (1951). After him are Paula Patton (1975), Layne Staley (1967), Miriam Stevenson (1933), Son House (1902), Helen Wills (1905), and David Spade (1964).
1970 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 4,562
1958 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 4,563
1960 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 4,564
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 4,565
1908 - 1991
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 4,566
1951 - 2014
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 4,567
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 4,568
1975 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 4,569
1967 - 2002
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 4,570
1933 - Present
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 4,571
1902 - 1988
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 4,572
1905 - 1998
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 4,573
1964 - Present
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 4,574
Among biologists born in United States, Francis Collins ranks 64. Before him are Luther Burbank (1849), Esther Lederberg (1922), Andrew Fire (1959), Aldo Leopold (1887), Arthur Cronquist (1919), and Garrett Hardin (1915). After him are Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), Brian Kobilka (1955), Sewall Wright (1889), Mary Agnes Chase (1869), Asa Gray (1810), and Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859).
1849 - 1926
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 58
1922 - 2006
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 59
1959 - Present
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 60
1887 - 1948
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 61
1919 - 1992
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 62
1915 - 2003
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 63
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 64
1869 - 1956
HPI: 61.31
Rank: 65
1955 - Present
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 66
1889 - 1988
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 67
1869 - 1963
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 68
1810 - 1888
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 69
1859 - 1934
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 70