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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 286,230 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Jack W. Szostak is the 295th most popular biologist (up from 412th in 2019), the 1,768th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,187th in 2019) and the 44th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 55

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  • 7.96

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  • 4.07

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jack W. Szostak ranks 295 out of 841Before him are Othenio Abel, René Louiche Desfontaines, Josif Pančić, Carol W. Greider, John Gould, and Joel Asaph Allen. After him are Phillip Allen Sharp, Ludwik Fleck, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, Christian Ludwig Brehm, Lev Berg, and Motoo Kimura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Jack W. Szostak ranks 127Before him are Eduardo Souto de Moura, Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Alfre Woodard, Fatos Nano, François Berléand, and Christiane Taubira. After him are Yoshitaka Amano, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, Clive Barker, David A. Stewart, Rex Tillerson, and Semyon Bychkov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack W. Szostak ranks 1,768 out of 7,765Before him are William Boyce (1711), John Gould (1804), Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868), Edith Tolkien (1889), George Whitefield (1714), and Peter Capaldi (1958). After him are Naomie Harris (1976), John Adams (1767), James Gillray (1756), Edward Balliol (1283), Augustus Pugin (1812), and Bill Foulkes (1932).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Jack W. Szostak ranks 44Before him are June Almeida (1930), Arthur Tansley (1871), Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), Marie Stopes (1880), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), and John Gould (1804). After him are Richard Henderson (1945), George Robert Gray (1808), Patrick Geddes (1854), Robert Fortune (1812), Roderick Murchison (1792), and Nehemiah Grew (1641).