BIOLOGIST

Jean-Pierre Changeux

1936 - Today

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Jean-Pierre Changeux (French: [ʃɑ̃ʒø]; born 6 April 1936) is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins (with a focus on the allosteric proteins), to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions. Although being famous in biological sciences for the MWC model, the identification and purification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and the theory of epigenesis by synapse selection are also notable scientific achievements. Changeux is known by the non-scientific public for his ideas regarding the connection between mind and physical brain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Pierre Changeux has received more than 110,940 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jean-Pierre Changeux is the 544th most popular biologist (down from 438th in 2019), the 3,754th most popular biography from France (down from 3,256th in 2019) and the 74th most popular French Biologist.

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  • 110k

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  • 57.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jean-Pierre Changeux ranks 544 out of 1,097. Before him are Marie Jules César Savigny, Paul Bert, Oswald Heer, Albrecht Thaer, Johann Friedrich Meckel, and Alfred Newton. After him are Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Harald Sverdrup, Otto von Münchhausen, Akira Miyawaki, John Gilbert Baker, and Alice Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Jean-Pierre Changeux ranks 276. Before him are Mustafa Ould Salek, Jan Tříska, Fang Lizhi, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Gábor Szabó, and Kim Yong-chun. After him are Pavol Molnár, Bobby Seale, Karol Divín, Željko Perušić, Edén Pastora, and Anthony Zerbe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Pierre Changeux ranks 3,754 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Vallée (1939), Valérie Trierweiler (1965), Charles Simon Favart (1710), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), Edmond Delfour (1907), and Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895). After him are Catherine Frot (1956), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), Lucien Gaudin (1886), Louis Charles Delescluze (1809), Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (1801), and Lily Pons (1898).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean-Pierre Changeux ranks 74. Before him are Sébastien Vaillant (1669), Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), Paul Gervais (1816), Eugène Simon (1848), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), and Paul Bert (1833). After him are Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779), Jean de Thévenot (1633), Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814), Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), and Antoine Risso (1777).

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