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BIOLOGIST

Jill Bolte Taylor

1959 - Today

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Jill Bolte Taylor (; born May 4, 1959) is an American neuroanatomist, author, and public speaker. Taylor began to study severe mental illnesses because of her brother's psychosis. In the early 1990s, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she was involved in mapping the brain to determine how cells communicate with each other. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jill Bolte Taylor has received more than 382,366 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jill Bolte Taylor is the 957th most popular biologist (down from 837th in 2019), the 14,154th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,027th in 2019) and the 159th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 33.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jill Bolte Taylor ranks 957 out of 841. Before her are Stephen Schneider, Joanne Chory, Sidney Dillon Ripley, Huda Zoghbi, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, and David Bellamy. After her are Magnus Manske, Angelika Amon, Matt Ridley, PZ Myers, Maria Van Kerkhove, and Sunetra Gupta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Jill Bolte Taylor ranks 633. Before her are Susana Martinez, Eric Fellner, Loretta Lynch, Jody Watley, Timothy Creamer, and Pamela Fryman. After her are Carolyn McCormick, Andrea Jung, Jack Abramoff, Bill Lee, Nils Johan Semb, and Alain Bondue.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jill Bolte Taylor ranks 14,154 out of 18,182. Before her are Eddie Holman (1946), Wayne Allard (1943), Beth Riesgraf (1978), Hugh Beaumont (1909), Eric Whitacre (1970), and Ashley Massaro (1979). After her are Patrika Darbo (1948), Carolyn McCormick (1959), Scott Skiles (1964), Brook Lopez (1988), Paul Fannin (1907), and Bradley Joseph (1965).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Jill Bolte Taylor ranks 159. Before her are Henry Weed Fowler (1878), Jerry Coyne (1949), Susan Lindquist (1949), Stephen Schneider (1945), Joanne Chory (1955), and Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913). After her are PZ Myers (1957) and Maria Van Kerkhove (1977).

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