BIOLOGIST

Jack W. Szostak

1952 - Today

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Jack William Szostak (born November 9, 1952) is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, University Professor at the University of Chicago, former Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Szostak has made significant contributions to the field of genetics. His achievement helped scientists to map the location of genes in mammals and to develop techniques for manipulating genes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack W. Szostak has received more than 298,334 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Jack W. Szostak is the 275th most popular biologist (up from 294th in 2019), the 1,542nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,763rd in 2019) and the 44th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 300k

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  • 56.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jack W. Szostak ranks 275 out of 1,097. Before him are David Julius, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Christen C. Raunkiær, Peter Forsskål, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, and Jérôme Lejeune. After him are John Maynard Smith, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, René Louiche Desfontaines, George Bentham, Salim Ali, and Wilhelm Peters.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Jack W. Szostak ranks 128. Before him are Larry Fink, Mandy Patinkin, Nile Rodgers, Pietro Mennea, James Ingram, and Vladislav Tretiak. After him are François Berléand, David Icke, Vandana Shiva, Graham Greene, Clive Barker, and Yuriko Koike.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack W. Szostak ranks 1,542 out of 8,785. Before him are Greg Lake (1947), Fraser Stoddart (1942), Olaf Stapledon (1886), Ian Kershaw (1943), Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840), and Anne Conway (1631). After him are Karen Armstrong (1944), William Walton (1902), Henry Tandey (1891), James Dyson (1947), David Icke (1952), and Lionel Robbins (1898).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Jack W. Szostak ranks 44. Before him are Nehemiah Grew (1641), William Aiton (1731), Richard Henderson (1945), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Lindley (1799), and Francis Darwin (1848). After him are John Maynard Smith (1920), George Bentham (1800), Patrick Geddes (1854), John Sulston (1942), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), and William Jackson Hooker (1785).

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