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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 physical chemist 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 129,389 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Margaret Oakley Dayhoff is the 523rd most popular chemist (down from 488th in 2019), the 9,727th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,590th in 2019) and the 94th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 523 out of 509. Before her are Jürgen Hennig, Sabir Yunusov, Bruce Ames, Hugo Erdmann, Yellapragada Subbarow, and F. Albert Cotton. After her are Mary L. Good, Gilbert Stork, Darleane C. Hoffman, John George Children, Anna J. Harrison, and Karen Wetterhahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 437. Before her are Gene Ammons, Slater Martin, Johnny Mandel, Martin David Kruskal, Ossi Reichert, and Kurt Lundquist. After her are Wahiduddin Khan, James Moody, Adelina Gutiérrez, G. William Miller, Toivo Hyytiäinen, and Fulvio Nesti. Among people deceased in 1983, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 221. Before her are George Bruns, Merle Travis, Lutz Eigendorf, Derek J. de Solla Price, Billy Fury, and Bjarne Pettersen. After her are Lynn Fontanne, Sabino Bilbao, Eubie Blake, Constantino Urbieta Sosa, Pedro Quartucci, and Kai Winding.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 9,727 out of 18,182. Before her are Ralph Lewis (1872), Lesley Ashburner (1883), Leatrice Joy (1893), Don Davis (1957), Jane Krakowski (1968), and John Henninger Reagan (1818). After her are Fyvush Finkel (1922), William Keighley (1889), Benji Madden (1979), John Brown Gordon (1832), Roy Harris (1898), and Marie Osborne Yeats (1911).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 94. Before her are Allen J. Bard (1933), Barbara Askins (1939), Robert Jarvik (1946), Mildred Cohn (1913), Bruce Ames (1928), and F. Albert Cotton (1930). After her are Mary L. Good (1931), Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), Anna J. Harrison (1912), Karen Wetterhahn (1948), Wallace Smith Broecker (1931), and Charles M. Lieber (1959).

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