1920 - 1951
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.Lacks was the unwitting source of these cells from a tumor biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1951. These cells were then cultured by George Otto Gey, who created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henrietta Lacks has received more than 8,086,343 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Henrietta Lacks is the 202nd most popular biologist (down from 56th in 2019), the 2,116th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,421st in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Biologist.
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Among biologists, Henrietta Lacks ranks 202 out of 841. Before her are Howard Martin Temin, Carl Gustav Carus, Pierre André Latreille, John Boyd Orr, Jeffrey C. Hall, and Charles M. Rice. After her are Waldemar Haffkine, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Jérôme Lejeune, Albert von Kölliker, Robert Gallo, and Hideyo Noguchi.
1934 - 1994
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 196
1789 - 1869
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 197
1762 - 1833
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 198
1880 - 1971
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 199
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 200
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 201
1920 - 1951
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 202
1860 - 1930
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 203
1901 - 1997
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 204
1926 - 1994
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 205
1817 - 1905
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 206
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 207
1876 - 1928
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 208
Among people born in 1920, Henrietta Lacks ranks 101. Before her are Meliton Kantaria, Väinö Linna, Jaan Kross, Hans Blumenberg, Ricardo Montalbán, and Cornelis Johannes van Houten. After her are Saul Bass, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Luisa Cuesta, Roberto Calvi, DeForest Kelley, and Jack Warden. Among people deceased in 1951, Henrietta Lacks ranks 44. Before her are Soh Jaipil, Erich Naumann, Kijūrō Shidehara, Nikolai Medtner, Katarzyna Kobro, and Agrippina Vaganova. After her are Serge Koussevitzky, Ernst von Weizsäcker, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Kim Chaek, Artur Schnabel, and François Georges-Picot.
1920 - 1993
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 95
1920 - 1992
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 96
1920 - 2007
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 97
1920 - 1996
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 98
1920 - 2009
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 99
1920 - 2002
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 100
1920 - 1951
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 101
1920 - 1996
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 102
1920 - 1944
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 103
1920 - 2018
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 104
1920 - 1982
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 105
1920 - 1999
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 106
1920 - 2006
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 107
1864 - 1951
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 38
1905 - 1951
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 39
1872 - 1951
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 40
1879 - 1951
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 41
1898 - 1951
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 42
1879 - 1951
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 43
1920 - 1951
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 44
1874 - 1951
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 45
1882 - 1951
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 46
1891 - 1951
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 47
1903 - 1951
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 48
1882 - 1951
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 49
1870 - 1951
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 50
Among people born in United States, Henrietta Lacks ranks 2,116 out of 18,182. Before her are Steve Morse (1954), Charles M. Rice (1952), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), and Frank Jack Fletcher (1885). After her are Saul Bass (1920), Jane Jacobs (1916), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Michael Emerson (1954), Paul Revere (1735), and Roberta Flack (1937).
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,110
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,111
1868 - 1924
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 2,112
1934 - Present
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,113
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,114
1885 - 1973
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,115
1920 - 1951
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,116
1920 - 1996
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,117
1916 - 2006
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,118
1963 - 2023
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,119
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 2,120
1735 - 1818
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 2,121
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 2,122
Among biologists born in United States, Henrietta Lacks ranks 41. Before her are Leland H. Hartwell (1939), George Wald (1906), George Smith (1941), Howard Martin Temin (1934), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), and Charles M. Rice (1952). After her are Robert Gallo (1937), David Baltimore (1938), Michael Rosbash (1944), Michael W. Young (1949), Bruce Beutler (1957), and H. Robert Horvitz (1947).
1939 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 35
1906 - 1997
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 36
1941 - Present
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 37
1934 - 1994
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 38
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 39
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 40
1920 - 1951
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 41
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 42
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 43
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 44
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 45
1957 - Present
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 46
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 47