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BIOLOGIST

Janet Rowley

1925 - 2013

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Janet Davison Rowley (April 5, 1925 – December 17, 2013) was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers, thus proving that cancer is a genetic disease. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Janet Rowley has received more than 126,925 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Janet Rowley is the 852nd most popular biologist (down from 820th in 2019), the 8,905th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,667th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular American Biologist.

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  • 4.46

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  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Janet Rowley ranks 852 out of 841. Before her are Herbert Boyer, Joseph Barcroft, Jules Pierre Rambur, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Robert Ridgway, and Charles Horton Peck. After her are Mark Catesby, William Beebe, Gilbert White, George Engelmann, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Joshua Brookes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Janet Rowley ranks 415. Before her are Peter Seeberg, Grigory Mkrtychan, June Christy, Joan Leslie, Robert B. Sherman, and D. A. Pennebaker. After her are Ilona Novák, Bruno Pesaola, Yuriy Lituyev, Raja Ramanna, Shirley Strickland, and Phillip V. Tobias. Among people deceased in 2013, Janet Rowley ranks 379. Before her are George E. P. Box, Gene Mako, Regina Resnik, Gerino Gerini, Valérie Benguigui, and Angela Voigt. After her are Costică Ștefănescu, Annette Funicello, Allan Arbus, Eero Kolehmainen, Jacques Grimonpon, and Kenneth Appel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Janet Rowley ranks 8,905 out of 18,182. Before her are Donald Gibb (1954), Kevin Randleman (1971), Mary Carew (1913), Kylie Ireland (1970), Mark Mancina (1957), and Art Babbitt (1907). After her are Melvin Laird (1922), Maggie McNamara (1928), Harvey Kurtzman (1924), Carmine Caridi (1934), Tim DeKay (1963), and Garrett Birkhoff (1911).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Janet Rowley ranks 122. Before her are Mary Katharine Brandegee (1844), George Ord (1781), Alfred Romer (1894), Herbert Boyer (1936), Robert Ridgway (1850), and Charles Horton Peck (1833). After her are William Beebe (1877), Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858), John Torrey (1796), Charles Sibley (1917), Frank Chapman (1864), and Charles B. Cory (1857).

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