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Louis Ignarro

1941 - Today

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Louis Joseph Ignarro (born May 31, 1941) is an American pharmacologist. For demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad. Currently, he is professor emeritus of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine's department of molecular and medical pharmacology in Los Angeles, which he joined in 1985. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Ignarro has received more than 288,900 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Ignarro is the 193rd most popular physician (down from 146th in 2019), the 1,563rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,131st in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Physician.

Louis Ignarro is a pharmacologist and a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is most famous for his discovery of nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the human body.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Louis Ignarro ranks 193 out of 726. Before him are Leonid Rogozov, Maurice Bucaille, Guy de Chauliac, Leonhart Fuchs, Sebastian Kneipp, and Heo Jun. After him are Peter Agre, Paul Gachet, Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Neferkare Neby, Albert Calmette, and Ludwig Guttmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Louis Ignarro ranks 107. Before him are Angelo Scola, William Nordhaus, Grace Zabriskie, Liamine Zéroual, Senta Berger, and Lella Lombardi. After him are Bertrand Tavernier, Emmett Till, David Warner, Roger Lemerre, Ann-Margret, and Stephen Jay Gould.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louis Ignarro ranks 1,563 out of 20,380. Before him are Jordan Belfort (1962), Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Chris Cooper (1951), Burt Bacharach (1928), Ken Kesey (1935), and Vint Cerf (1943). After him are Peter Agre (1949), Holland Taylor (1943), Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), Peter Dinklage (1969), Paul Revere (1735), and Rollo May (1909).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Louis Ignarro ranks 21. Before him are E. Donnall Thomas (1920), George H. Hitchings (1905), George Whipple (1878), Robin Cook (1940), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), and Joseph Murray (1919). After him are Peter Agre (1949), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Patch Adams (1945), Randy Schekman (1948), Henry Heimlich (1920), and Robert Lefkowitz (1943).

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