BIOLOGIST

Hamilton O. Smith

1931 - Today

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Hamilton Othanel Smith (born August 23, 1931) is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate.Smith graduated from University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but in 1950 transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his B.A. in Mathematics in 1952 [1]. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1956. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hamilton O. Smith has received more than 144,689 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Hamilton O. Smith is the 140th most popular biologist (down from 138th in 2019), the 1,265th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,372nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Hamilton O. Smiths by language

Over the past year Hamilton O. Smith has had the most page views in the with 13,993 views, followed by Chinese (3,594), and Spanish (2,812). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latin (68.55%), Southern Azerbaijani (64.47%), and Hindi (62.02%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 140 out of 1,097. Before him are E. O. Wilson, Bert Sakmann, Gerald Edelman, Tomas Lindahl, John Ray, and Carl Peter Thunberg. After him are Mario Capecchi, William Carey, J. Michael Bishop, William Bateson, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Jan Svatopluk Presl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 68. Before him are Ivan Rebroff, Arata Isozaki, Richard F. Heck, Ike Turner, Rita Moreno, and Jean-Claude Carrière. After him are Ronald Dworkin, Alfred Brendel, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Caterina Valente, Antonella Lualdi, and Don King.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 1,265 out of 20,380. Before him are Otis Redding (1941), Phil Hill (1927), Courtney Love (1964), George Whipple (1878), Mamie Eisenhower (1896), and Scott Glenn (1939). After him are Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), Kirstie Alley (1951), Dennis Rader (1945), David Morse (1953), Calamity Jane (1852), and Dorothy Malone (1924).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 23. Before him are Edward Tatum (1909), Alfred Hershey (1908), Carl Woese (1928), Edward B. Lewis (1918), E. O. Wilson (1929), and Gerald Edelman (1929). After him are J. Michael Bishop (1936), George Davis Snell (1903), Leland H. Hartwell (1939), Norman Borlaug (1914), Joshua Lederberg (1925), and Robert Whittaker (1920).

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