1939 - Today
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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Among physicians, John O'Keefe ranks 236 out of 502. Before 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.
1798 - 1866
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 230
1893 - 1965
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 231
1964 - Present
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 232
1928 - 2011
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 233
1873 - 1941
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 234
2300 BC - 2260 BC
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 235
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 236
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 237
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 238
1638 - 1731
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 239
1772 - 1840
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 240
1616 - 1680
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 241
1816 - 1895
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 242
Among people born in 1939, John O'Keefe ranks 102. Before 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.
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 96
1939 - 2021
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 97
1939 - 2021
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 98
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 99
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 100
1939 - 2022
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 101
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 102
1939 - 2019
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 103
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 104
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 105
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 106
1939 - 1999
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 107
1939 - 2012
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 108
Among people born in United States, John O'Keefe ranks 1,946 out of 18,182. Before 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).
1972 - Present
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 1,940
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 1,941
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 1,942
1925 - 2014
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 1,943
1934 - 2016
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 1,944
1977 - Present
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 1,945
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 1,946
1878 - 1968
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 1,947
1930 - 1999
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 1,948
1955 - Present
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 1,949
1874 - 1956
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 1,950
1912 - 1992
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 1,951
1911 - 1978
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 1,952
Among physicians born in United States, John O'Keefe ranks 27. Before 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).
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 21
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 22
1878 - 1976
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 23
1920 - 2016
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 24
1895 - 1973
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 25
1928 - 2011
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 26
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 27
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 28
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 29
1852 - 1943
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 30
1869 - 1939
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 31
1908 - 2008
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 32
1828 - 1917
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 33