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 1,079th most popular biologist (down from 956th in 2019), the 14,795th most popular biography from United States (down from 14,118th in 2019) and the 186th most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jill Bolte Taylors by language

Over the past year Jill Bolte Taylor has had the most page views in the with 34,230 views, followed by French (3,311), and German (3,081). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Albanian (87.75%), Egyptian Arabic (69.01%), and Esperanto (68.64%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jill Bolte Taylor ranks 1,079 out of 1,097. Before her are Maurice Kottelat, Xu Xing, E. B. Ford, Jerry Coyne, Sidney Dillon Ripley, and Margaret Morse Nice. After her are Angelika Amon, Matt Ridley, Pamela C. Rasmussen, David Bellamy, Christian Drosten, and Peter Piot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Jill Bolte Taylor ranks 699. Before her are Tor Endresen, Rogelio Delgado, Susan Faludi, Mehbooba Mufti, Gary Lux, and Jody Watley. After her are Cindy Hyde-Smith, Dagmar Lurz, Paul Attanasio, Göran Hägglund, Andrew Hoy, and Nikolay Chernetskiy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jill Bolte Taylor ranks 14,795 out of 20,380. Before her are Tuc Watkins (1966), Joe Gans (1874), Lili Reinhart (1996), Penny Singleton (1908), Darrell Hammond (1955), and Daniel Lewin (1970). After her are Mike Rounds (1954), Cindy Hyde-Smith (1959), Eddie Jones (1971), Daniel Sunjata (1971), Naked Cowboy (1970), and Gracie Abrams (1999).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Jill Bolte Taylor ranks 186. Before her are Joan A. Steitz (1941), Albert William Herre (1868), Stephen Schneider (1945), Jerry Coyne (1949), Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913), and Margaret Morse Nice (1883). After her are Ben Barres (1954), Peter Dodson (1946), PZ Myers (1957), Maria Van Kerkhove (1977), and Sean B. Carroll (1960).

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