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Margaret Oakley Dayhoff

1925 - 1983

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Margaret Belle (Oakley) Dayhoff (March 11, 1925 – February 5, 1983) was an American Biophysicist and a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics. Dayhoff was a professor at Georgetown University Medical Center and a noted research biochemist at the National Biomedical Research Foundation, where she pioneered the application of mathematics and computational methods to the field of biochemistry. She dedicated her career to applying the evolving computational technologies to support advances in biology and medicine, most notably the creation of protein and nucleic acid databases and tools to interrogate the databases. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Oakley Dayhoff has received more than 136,973 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff is the 592nd most popular chemist (down from 522nd in 2019), the 13,613th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,705th in 2019) and the 119th most popular American Chemist.

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Among chemists, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 592 out of 602. Before her are John George Children, Richard Lerner, Esther M. Conwell, Omar M. Yaghi, Ruth R. Benerito, and Donald Howard Menzel. After her are George Church, Harry B. Gray, Sam Ruben, Charles M. Lieber, Willis R. Whitney, and Darshan Ranganathan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 529. Before her are Alexei Guryshev, Albert Paulsen, Ebrahim Alkazi, Jerry Paris, Keshav Dutt, and Johnny Horton. After her are Peter Hirsch, Nina Bawden, Bill Dixon, Bob Hastings, Alastair McCorquodale, and Russell Hoban. Among people deceased in 1983, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 271. Before her are Marie Mosquini, Keith Holyoake, Billy Fury, Alexei Guryshev, Vic Lindquist, and Ruby Myers. After her are Terence Cooke, Fatma Begum, Harold Stephen Black, Elisabeth Lutyens, Gale Page, and Ahmed Rushdi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 13,613 out of 20,380. Before her are John Boles (1895), Bob Uecker (1934), Vivian Kubrick (1960), Ellen Drew (1914), Mark-Paul Gosselaar (1974), and Chris Messina (1974). After her are Sydney Tamiia Poitier (1973), Lamont Johnson (1922), Alexa Demie (1990), Jane Rosenthal (1956), King Moody (1929), and Mark Cerny (1964).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 119. Before her are Percy Lavon Julian (1899), Benjamin Silliman (1779), Richard Lerner (1938), Esther M. Conwell (1922), Ruth R. Benerito (1916), and Donald Howard Menzel (1901). After her are George Church (1954), Harry B. Gray (1935), Sam Ruben (1913), Charles M. Lieber (1959), and Willis R. Whitney (1868).

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