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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 14,059 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). John O'Keefe is the 236th most popular physician (down from 219th in 2019), the 1,946th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,829th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Physician.

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  • 48

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  • 7.15

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  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, John O'Keefe ranks 236 out of 502Before him are Thomas Hodgkin, Carl Værnet, Mehriban Aliyeva, Jack Kevorkian, Hans Berger, and Neferkare Neby. After him are Barry Marshall, Robert Lefkowitz, Frederik Ruysch, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, Thomas Bartholin, and Carl Ludwig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, John O'Keefe ranks 102Before him are Krzysztof Zanussi, Yaphet Kotto, Carmen Salinas, Nikola Pilić, Michael Moorcock, and Ruggero Deodato. After him are Ginger Baker, Jean Djorkaeff, Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria, Grace Slick, Dusty Springfield, and Warda Al-Jazairia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John O'Keefe ranks 1,946 out of 18,182Before him are Busta Rhymes (1972), Frank Zane (1942), Sam Elliott (1944), Alexander Shulgin (1925), Garry Marshall (1934), and Jessica Chastain (1977). After him are Upton Sinclair (1878), Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), Griffin Dunne (1955), Thomas J. Watson (1874), Richard Brooks (1912), and Hubert Humphrey (1911).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, John O'Keefe ranks 27Before him are Anthony Fauci (1940), Patch Adams (1945), George Whipple (1878), Henry Heimlich (1920), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), and Jack Kevorkian (1928). After him are Robert Lefkowitz (1943), Peter Agre (1949), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Harvey Cushing (1869), Michael DeBakey (1908), and Andrew Taylor Still (1828).