BIOLOGIST

Lucy Shapiro

1940 - Today

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Lucy Shapiro (born July 16, 1940, New York City) is an American developmental biologist. She is a professor of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research and the director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine.Shapiro founded a new field in developmental biology, using microorganisms to examine fundamental questions in developmental biology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucy Shapiro has received more than 84,947 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Lucy Shapiro is the 932nd most popular biologist (down from 908th in 2019), the 9,143rd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,305th in 2019) and the 136th most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 85k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Lucy Shapiros by language

Over the past year Lucy Shapiro has had the most page views in the with 8,806 views, followed by Chinese (2,135), and Arabic (1,424). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Asturian (81.07%), German (54.34%), and Arabic (45.45%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Lucy Shapiro ranks 932 out of 1,097. Before her are Walter Migula, John Hopfield, Gerrit Smith Miller, Tokiharu Abe, Richard Thomas Lowe, and Johann Wilhelm Meigen. After her are Robert Wight, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, William Beebe, Johann Friedrich Adam, Joseph Barcroft, and Thomas Pennant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Lucy Shapiro ranks 494. Before her are Dorrit Willumsen, Alberto Fouilloux, Joe South, Roy Ayers, Roberto Matosas, and Thomas Köhler. After her are Yvonne Blake, Nicolae Martinescu, Aristides Royo, Georges Carnus, George Adams, and Dallas Long.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lucy Shapiro ranks 9,143 out of 20,380. Before her are Jimmy Garrison (1934), Edward Moore (1897), Bam Bam Bigelow (1961), Cara Buono (1974), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), and Betty Blythe (1893). After her are Carroll O'Connor (1924), Neil Hamilton (1899), Royal Dano (1922), Red Skelton (1913), Ed Boon (1964), and Rufus Thomas (1917).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Lucy Shapiro ranks 136. Before her are Ruth Patrick (1907), G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906), Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875), Osamu Hayaishi (1920), John Hopfield (1933), and Gerrit Smith Miller (1869). After her are William Beebe (1877), Charles Sibley (1917), Janet Rowley (1925), Alexander Wetmore (1886), James Chapin (1889), and John Lawrence LeConte (1825).

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