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John Sulston

1942 - 2018

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Sir John Edward Sulston (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Sulston has received more than 205,266 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). John Sulston is the 338th most popular biologist (up from 420th in 2019), the 1,996th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,217th in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Sulston ranks 338 out of 841. Before him are François-Alphonse Forel, Takenoshin Nakai, Emil Christian Hansen, Karl Koch, John Stevens Henslow, and John Needham. After him are Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Leizu, Charles Chamberland, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, and Mathurin Jacques Brisson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, John Sulston ranks 239. Before him are Heidi Brühl, Lawrence Weiner, Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, Bill Nelson, Christine Keeler, and Hans-Rudolf Merz. After him are Tasuku Honjo, Lev Leshchenko, Jerry Garcia, Iolu Abil, Erica Jong, and Tony Sirico. Among people deceased in 2018, John Sulston ranks 151. Before him are Choi Eun-hee, Harlan Ellison, Ola Ullsten, Ara Güler, Dan Gurney, and Nancy Roman. After him are Kirin Kiki, Walter Laqueur, David C. H. Austin, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Venantino Venantini, and Stefán Karl Stefánsson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Sulston ranks 1,996 out of 7,765. Before him are Rick Wakeman (1949), John Needham (1713), William Hartnell (1908), John Michell (1724), John Bagot Glubb (1897), and Dudley Moore (1935). After him are William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773), Herbert Read (1893), Graham Bonnet (1947), Jeanette (1951), George Frederic Watts (1817), and Mary Hopkin (1950).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Sulston ranks 54. Before him are Robert Fortune (1812), Roderick Murchison (1792), Nehemiah Grew (1641), Ian Wilmut (1944), John Stevens Henslow (1796), and John Needham (1713). After him are William Speirs Bruce (1867), John Maynard Smith (1920), Paul Nurse (1949), William Hudson (1730), Oldfield Thomas (1858), and Francis Darwin (1848).

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