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Joseph L. Goldstein

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Joseph Leonard Goldstein ForMemRS (born April 18, 1940) is an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985, along with fellow University of Texas Southwestern researcher, Michael Brown, for their studies regarding cholesterol. They discovered that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that remove cholesterol from the blood and that when LDL receptors are not present in sufficient numbers, individuals develop hypercholesterolemia and become at risk for cholesterol related diseases, notably coronary heart disease. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph L. Goldstein has received more than 175,519 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Joseph L. Goldstein is the 239th most popular chemist (up from 292nd in 2019), the 1,556th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,107th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Chemist.

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  • 44

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  • 12.33

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  • 2.77

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Joseph L. Goldstein ranks 239 out of 509. Before him are John E. Walker, Sidney Altman, Richard F. Heck, Nikolay Zelinsky, Mario J. Molina, and Paul L. Modrich. After him are Henri Victor Regnault, Ida Noddack, Hermann Kolbe, Edward W. Morley, Donald J. Cram, and Jaroslav Heyrovský.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Joseph L. Goldstein ranks 94. Before him are Mamnoon Hussain, Roger Ailes, Nobuyoshi Araki, Arieh Warshel, Clive Sinclair, and Max Mosley. After him are Régis Debray, Vladimir Cosma, Frida Boccara, Vittorio Storaro, Gojko Mitić, and Alan Kay.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph L. Goldstein ranks 1,556 out of 18,182. Before him are Poul Anderson (1926), Paul L. Modrich (1946), Leslie Groves (1896), Kim Carnes (1945), Lisa Ann (1972), and Tony Shalhoub (1953). After him are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), George Whipple (1878), William Daniel Phillips (1948), Valerie Solanas (1936), Anthony Bourdain (1956), and Eddie Cochran (1938).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Joseph L. Goldstein ranks 49. Before him are Robert Curl (1933), Elias James Corey (1928), Alfred G. Gilman (1941), William Lipscomb (1919), Richard F. Heck (1931), and Paul L. Modrich (1946). After him are Edward W. Morley (1838), Donald J. Cram (1919), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), and Martin Rodbell (1925).

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