BIOLOGIST

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 214,346 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. John Sulston is the 318th most popular biologist (up from 337th in 2019), the 1,764th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,991st in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 4.40

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Sulston ranks 318 out of 1,097. Before him are Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Anton Reichenow, Patrick Geddes, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Otto Friedrich Müller, and Gregory Goodwin Pincus. After him are Rupert Sheldrake, Bruce Beutler, Charles Chamberland, Eugenius Warming, Phillip Allen Sharp, and Michał Boym.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, John Sulston ranks 210. Before him are Ian Callaghan, Irina Miroshnichenko, Terry Bisson, Leo Nucci, Vyacheslav Zudov, and Hayedeh. After him are Anatoli Bugorski, Rupert Sheldrake, Derek Jarman, Oscar Bonavena, Curtis Mayfield, and Heidi Brühl. Among people deceased in 2018, John Sulston ranks 132. Before him are Venantino Venantini, Ahron Daum, Oleg Tabakov, Margit Sandemo, Yoshinobu Ishii, and Katherine MacGregor. After him are M. Karunanidhi, Robert Morris, Moshé Mizrahi, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Roger Piantoni, and Eunice Gayson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Sulston ranks 1,764 out of 8,785. Before him are Archibald Leitch (1865), Leonard Woolf (1880), Sigfrid of Sweden (1000), Dorothy Shepherd-Barron (1897), Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), and Peg Entwistle (1908). After him are Taliesin (518), Saint Alban (300), Amy Johnson (1903), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), Peter Lawford (1923), and Peter Vaughan (1923).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Sulston ranks 48. Before him are John Lindley (1799), Francis Darwin (1848), Jack W. Szostak (1952), John Maynard Smith (1920), George Bentham (1800), and Patrick Geddes (1854). After him are Rupert Sheldrake (1942), William Jackson Hooker (1785), Arthur Tansley (1871), John Gould (1804), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), and John Stevens Henslow (1796).

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