CHEMIST

Jennifer Doudna

1964 - Today

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Jennifer Anne Doudna (; born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has done pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. Doudna was one of the first women to share a Nobel in the sciences. She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Emmanuelle Charpentier, "for the development of a method for genome editing." She is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair Professor in the department of chemistry and the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997.Doudna graduated from Pomona College in 1985 and earned a Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jennifer Doudna has received more than 2,079,366 page views. Her biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Jennifer Doudna is the 407th most popular chemist (down from 369th in 2019), the 4,050th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,522nd in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Chemist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 72

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jennifer Doudnas by language

Over the past year Jennifer Doudna has had the most page views in the with 259,675 views, followed by Spanish (23,202), and German (14,306). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (226.42%), Esperanto (90.48%), and Tagalog (79.60%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jennifer Doudna ranks 407 out of 602. Before her are Agnes Pockels, Otto Ambros, John William Draper, Arthur Aikin, Fausto Elhuyar, and Peter J. Ratcliffe. After her are David Warren, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, John Walker, Franz von Soxhlet, Nicolas Lemery, and Lina Stern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Jennifer Doudna ranks 130. Before her are Anne Applebaum, Andi Deris, Diana Krall, Anthony Delon, Aviv Kochavi, and Miodrag Belodedici. After her are Martin Donnelly, Toni Polster, Valdo Filho, Elle Macpherson, Abhisit Vejjajiva, and Věra Jourová.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jennifer Doudna ranks 4,050 out of 20,380. Before her are William Katt (1951), Big Sean (1988), Lana Wood (1946), Dorothy McGuire (1916), Natacha Rambova (1897), and Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944). After her are Pharoah Sanders (1940), Robert Mulligan (1925), Gene Amdahl (1922), Helen B. Taussig (1898), Kate Walsh (1967), and Robert Smith (1757).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Jennifer Doudna ranks 76. Before her are Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Allen J. Bard (1933), Albert Ghiorso (1915), Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), and George Washington Carver (1864). After her are John Tukey (1915), Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966), Eric Betzig (1960), Roy J. Plunkett (1910), Myrtle Bachelder (1908), and James B. Conant (1893).

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