1912 - 2004
Julius Axelrod (May 30, 1912 – December 29, 2004) was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler. The Nobel Committee honored him for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters, a class of chemicals in the brain that include epinephrine, norepinephrine, and, as was later discovered, dopamine. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius Axelrod has received more than 180,782 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Julius Axelrod is the 189th most popular chemist (down from 187th in 2019), the 1,282nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,338th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Chemist.
Julius Axelrod is most famous for his work in the field of neuropharmacology. He was the first to isolate and identify the neurotransmitter called dopamine.
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Among chemists, Julius Axelrod ranks 189 out of 509. Before him are Ei-ichi Negishi, Walter Gilbert, Alan J. Heeger, Raymond Davis Jr., Stanislao Cannizzaro, and Germain Henri Hess. After him are Gerhard Herzberg, Erwin Chargaff, Ahmed Zewail, Otto Wichterle, Johann Deisenhofer, and F. Sherwood Rowland.
1935 - 2021
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 183
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 184
1936 - Present
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 185
1914 - 2006
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 186
1826 - 1910
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 187
1802 - 1850
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 188
1912 - 2004
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 189
1904 - 1999
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 190
1905 - 2002
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 191
1946 - 2016
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 192
1913 - 1998
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 193
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 194
1927 - 2012
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 195
Among people born in 1912, Julius Axelrod ranks 56. Before him are Taiichi Ohno, Tibor Sekelj, Ghazi of Iraq, George Emil Palade, Ertuğrul Osman, and Pedro Armendáriz. After him are John Payne, Patrick White, Cornel Wilde, Isser Harel, Salvador Luria, and José Ferrer. Among people deceased in 2004, Julius Axelrod ranks 38. Before him are Godfrey Hounsfield, Gérard Debreu, John Vane, Thomas Klestil, Robert Merle, and Matthäus Hetzenauer. After him are Andriyan Nikolayev, Edward B. Lewis, Theo van Gogh, Arthur Hailey, Norberto Bobbio, and John Pople.
1912 - 1990
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 50
1912 - 1988
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 51
1912 - 1939
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 52
1912 - 2008
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 53
1912 - 2009
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 54
1912 - 1963
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 55
1912 - 2004
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 56
1912 - 1989
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 57
1912 - 1990
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 58
1912 - 1989
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 59
1912 - 2003
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 60
1912 - 1991
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 61
1912 - 1992
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 62
1919 - 2004
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 32
1921 - 2004
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 33
1927 - 2004
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 34
1932 - 2004
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 35
1908 - 2004
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 36
1924 - 2004
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 37
1912 - 2004
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 38
1929 - 2004
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 39
1918 - 2004
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 40
1957 - 2004
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 41
1920 - 2004
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 42
1909 - 2004
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 43
1925 - 2004
HPI: 59.45
Rank: 44
Among people born in United States, Julius Axelrod ranks 1,282 out of 18,182. Before him are Sam Cooke (1931), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Chevy Chase (1943), Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), and Mike Shinoda (1977). After him are John Payne (1912), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), James Garner (1928), Henry Gantt (1861), Lewis A. Swift (1820), and Annette Bening (1958).
1931 - 1964
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 1,276
1914 - 2006
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 1,277
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,278
1871 - 1945
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,279
1874 - 1960
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,280
1977 - Present
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,281
1912 - 2004
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 1,282
1912 - 1989
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,283
1946 - 1976
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,284
1928 - 2014
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,285
1861 - 1919
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,286
1820 - 1913
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,287
1958 - Present
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,288
Among chemists born in United States, Julius Axelrod ranks 38. Before him are Wallace Carothers (1896), Stephanie Kwolek (1923), Arthur Kornberg (1918), Walter Gilbert (1932), Alan J. Heeger (1936), and Raymond Davis Jr. (1914). After him are F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), John Fenn (1917), Robert H. Grubbs (1942), William Standish Knowles (1917), Robert Curl (1933), and Elias James Corey (1928).
1896 - 1937
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 32
1923 - 2014
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 33
1918 - 2007
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 34
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 35
1936 - Present
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 36
1914 - 2006
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 37
1912 - 2004
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 38
1927 - 2012
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 39
1917 - 2010
HPI: 60.21
Rank: 40
1942 - 2021
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 41
1917 - 2012
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 42
1933 - 2022
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 43
1928 - Present
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 44