1942 - 2018
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, 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.
1841 - 1912
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 332
1882 - 1952
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 333
1842 - 1909
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 334
1809 - 1879
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 335
1796 - 1861
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 336
1713 - 1781
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 337
1942 - 2018
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 338
1775 - 1813
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 339
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 340
1851 - 1908
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 341
1823 - 1889
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 342
1665 - 1721
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 343
1723 - 1806
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 344
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.
1942 - 1991
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 233
1942 - 2021
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 234
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 235
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 236
1942 - 2017
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 237
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 238
1942 - 2018
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 239
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 240
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 241
1942 - 1995
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 242
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 243
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 244
1942 - 2022
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 245
1926 - 2018
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 145
1934 - 2018
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 146
1931 - 2018
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 147
1928 - 2018
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 148
1931 - 2018
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 149
1925 - 2018
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 150
1942 - 2018
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 151
1943 - 2018
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 152
1921 - 2018
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 153
1926 - 2018
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 154
1927 - 2018
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 155
1930 - 2018
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 156
1975 - 2018
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 157
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).
1949 - Present
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 1,990
1713 - 1781
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 1,991
1908 - 1975
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 1,992
1724 - 1793
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 1,993
1897 - 1986
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 1,994
1935 - 2002
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 1,995
1942 - 2018
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 1,996
1773 - 1857
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 1,997
1893 - 1968
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 1,998
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 1,999
1951 - Present
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 2,000
1817 - 1904
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 2,001
1950 - Present
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 2,002
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).
1812 - 1880
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 48
1792 - 1871
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 49
1641 - 1712
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 50
1944 - 2023
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 51
1796 - 1861
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 52
1713 - 1781
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 53
1942 - 2018
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 54
1867 - 1921
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 55
1920 - 2004
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 56
1949 - Present
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 57
1730 - 1793
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 58
1858 - 1929
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 59
1848 - 1925
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 60