New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

BIOLOGIST

J. Michael Bishop

1936 - Today

Photo of J. Michael Bishop

Icon of person J. Michael Bishop

John Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936) is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. Michael Bishop has received more than 160,471 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). J. Michael Bishop is the 156th most popular biologist (up from 220th in 2019), the 1,508th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,251st in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of J. Michael Bishops by language


Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, J. Michael Bishop ranks 156 out of 841Before him are Charles Scott Sherrington, Susumu Tonegawa, Theodor Escherich, John James Audubon, Mario Capecchi, and Mikhail Tsvet. After him are Jakob von Uexküll, Olaus Rudbeck, Johan Christian Fabricius, Paul Greengard, Anna Atkins, and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard.

Most Popular Biologists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, J. Michael Bishop ranks 77Before him are Iolanda Balaș, François Pinault, Samuel C. C. Ting, Bekim Fehmiu, Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. After him are Moussa Traoré, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Leonid Kuravlyov, Valerie Solanas, Ljubiša Samardžić, and Paul L. Smith.

Others Born in 1936

Go to all Rankings

In United States

Among people born in United States, J. Michael Bishop ranks 1,508 out of 18,182Before him are Virginia Cherrill (1908), Chris Cornell (1964), Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869), Anthony Kiedis (1962), Michelle Rodriguez (1978), and Janet Gaynor (1906). After him are J. Allen Hynek (1910), Pat Nixon (1912), Art Blakey (1919), Vincent D'Onofrio (1959), Betty Friedan (1921), and Gus Grissom (1926).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, J. Michael Bishop ranks 28Before him are Joshua Lederberg (1925), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), Nettie Stevens (1861), Gerald Edelman (1929), Daniel Nathans (1928), and Robert Whittaker (1920). After him are Paul Greengard (1925), Temple Grandin (1947), John B. Calhoun (1917), Wilbur Scoville (1865), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), and Edward Tatum (1909).