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John O'Keefe

1939 - Today

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John O'Keefe, (born November 18, 1939) is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour and the Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London. He discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that they show a specific kind of temporal coding in the form of theta phase precession. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014, together with May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser; he has received several other awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John O'Keefe has received more than 15,397 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). John O'Keefe is the 253rd most popular physician (down from 236th in 2019), the 2,145th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,945th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Physician.

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  • 15k

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  • 57.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, John O'Keefe ranks 253 out of 726. Before him are Henry Heimlich, Robert Lefkowitz, François Magendie, Horst Schumann, Sun Simiao, and William Chester Minor. After him are Edward Bach, Antonio Maria Valsalva, Christian Bohr, Torsten Wiesel, Carl Værnet, and Irmfried Eberl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, John O'Keefe ranks 116. Before him are Concha Velasco, Tarcisio Burgnich, Sante Gaiardoni, Guntis Ulmanis, Robert Hansen, and Ginger Baker. After him are Jean Djorkaeff, Barry Seal, Stanisław Dziwisz, Michu Meszaros, Dieter Schwarz, and Joseph D. Pistone.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John O'Keefe ranks 2,145 out of 20,380. Before him are Bernard Malamud (1914), Lance Reddick (1962), Thomas Eakins (1844), James J. Braddock (1905), Henry J. Heinz (1844), and Alexander Shulgin (1925). After him are Jackie Jackson (1951), Karen Uhlenbeck (1942), Allen Newell (1927), Lewis Mumford (1895), Beau Bridges (1941), and Harold Garfinkel (1917).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, John O'Keefe ranks 28. Before him are Peter Agre (1949), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Patch Adams (1945), Randy Schekman (1948), Henry Heimlich (1920), and Robert Lefkowitz (1943). After him are John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Richard Axel (1946), Michael DeBakey (1908), Drew Weissman (1959), and Horace Wells (1815).

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