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BIOLOGIST

Linda B. Buck

1947 - Today

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Linda Brown Buck (born January 29, 1947) is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system. She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard Axel, for their work on olfactory receptors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Linda B. Buck has received more than 217,200 page views. Her biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Linda B. Buck is the 63rd most popular biologist (up from 129th in 2019), the 783rd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,367th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Biologist.

Linda B. Buck is most famous for her Nobel Prize-winning work on olfactory receptors.

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  • 220k

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  • 63.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Linda B. Buck ranks 63 out of 841. Before her are Erasmus Darwin, Albert Claude, Hugo Theorell, Stanley B. Prusiner, Ernst Mayr, and Hermann Joseph Muller. After her are George Beadle, Max Theiler, John Edward Gray, Herman Boerhaave, Alexander Oparin, and John Franklin Enders.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Linda B. Buck ranks 43. Before her are Gloria Gaynor, Gigliola Cinquetti, Michio Kaku, Ronnie Wood, Richard Griffiths, and Zahi Hawass. After her are Óscar Tabárez, César Gaviria, Gerd Binnig, James Woods, Megawati Sukarnoputri, and Rob Rensenbrink.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Linda B. Buck ranks 783 out of 18,182. Before her are Ray Manzarek (1939), Groucho Marx (1890), Martin Seligman (1942), Jada Pinkett Smith (1971), Dashiell Hammett (1894), and Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904). After her are Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), Adam Sandler (1966), George Beadle (1903), John Dos Passos (1896), and Anne Sullivan (1866).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Linda B. Buck ranks 8. Before her are Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), Rachel Carson (1907), Barbara McClintock (1902), Dian Fossey (1932), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), and Hermann Joseph Muller (1890). After her are George Beadle (1903), John Franklin Enders (1897), Lynn Margulis (1938), Irwin Rose (1926), Alfred Hershey (1908), and E. O. Wilson (1929).

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