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BIOLOGIST

James Rothman

1950 - Today

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James Edward Rothman (born November 3, 1950) is an American biochemist. He is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University, the Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, and the Director of the Nanobiology Institute at the Yale West Campus. Rothman also concurrently serves as adjunct professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University and a research professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London. Rothman was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on vesicle trafficking (shared with Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Rothman has received more than 162,257 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). James Rothman is the 305th most popular biologist (up from 374th in 2019), the 3,064th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,473rd in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 160k

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  • 53.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, James Rothman ranks 305 out of 841. Before him are Christian Ludwig Brehm, Lev Berg, Motoo Kimura, Carl Nägeli, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, and Karl Möbius. After him are Theodor Boveri, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, Lorenz Oken, Charles Plumier, Eric F. Wieschaus, and Richard Henderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, James Rothman ranks 126. Before him are Laura Esquivel, Natalie Cole, Nancy Allen, Randy Quaid, Yumi Umeoka, and John Hughes. After him are Susana Higuchi, Bruce Boxleitner, Péter Esterházy, Bah Ndaw, Richard Chase, and Willy DeVille.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Rothman ranks 3,064 out of 18,182. Before him are Ma Rainey (1886), Vanessa Williams (1963), James S. Sherman (1855), John Hughes (1950), Marie Smith Jones (1918), and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923). After him are James J. Gibson (1904), Dwight F. Davis (1879), Jennifer Beals (1963), Alex North (1910), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), and Michelle Monaghan (1976).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, James Rothman ranks 58. Before him are Wilder Penfield (1891), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), Carol W. Greider (1961), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), and Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903). After him are Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), Eugene Odum (1913), Luther Burbank (1849), Harold E. Varmus (1939), Barry Commoner (1917), and Andrew Fire (1959).

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