1927 - 2010
Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marshall Warren Nirenberg has received more than 238,104 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Marshall Warren Nirenberg is the 79th most popular chemist (up from 97th in 2019), the 607th most popular biography from United States (up from 761st in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Chemist.
Marshall Warren Nirenberg was a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for his work on the genetic code.
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Among chemists, Marshall Warren Nirenberg ranks 79 out of 509. Before him are Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Gilbert N. Lewis, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, and Joseph Proust. After him are Hermann Staudinger, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Karl Ziegler, Johann Rudolf Glauber, Konrad Emil Bloch, and Odd Hassel.
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 73
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 74
1865 - 1929
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 75
1780 - 1849
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 76
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 77
1754 - 1826
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 78
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 79
1881 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 80
1786 - 1889
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 81
1898 - 1973
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 82
1604 - 1670
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 83
1912 - 2000
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 84
1897 - 1981
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 85
Among people born in 1927, Marshall Warren Nirenberg ranks 25. Before him are Niklas Luhmann, Albert Uderzo, Juliette Gréco, Margaret Keane, Maurice Béjart, and Janet Leigh. After him are Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Martin Lewis Perl, Don Shirley, Robert Ludlum, Hubert de Givenchy, and Robert Hossein. Among people deceased in 2010, Marshall Warren Nirenberg ranks 15. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot, Zecharia Sitchin, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Claude Chabrol, Dennis Hopper, and Bobby Farrell. After him are Gennady Yanayev, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Maurice Allais, Georges Charpak, and Alois Brunner.
1927 - 1998
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 19
1927 - 2020
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 20
1927 - 2020
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 21
1927 - 2022
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 22
1927 - 2007
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 23
1927 - 2004
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 24
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 25
1927 - 2005
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 26
1927 - 2014
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 27
1927 - 2013
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 28
1927 - 2001
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 29
1927 - 2018
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 30
1927 - 2020
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 31
1924 - 2010
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 9
1920 - 2010
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 10
1920 - 2010
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 11
1930 - 2010
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 12
1936 - 2010
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 13
1949 - 2010
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 14
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 15
1937 - 2010
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 16
1941 - 2010
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 17
1916 - 2010
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 18
1911 - 2010
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 19
1924 - 2010
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 20
1912 - 2010
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 21
Among people born in United States, Marshall Warren Nirenberg ranks 607 out of 18,182. Before him are John Glenn (1921), Michael Landon (1936), Louis Zamperini (1917), Sean Penn (1960), Janet Leigh (1927), and Nat King Cole (1919). After him are Jared Diamond (1937), Burt Reynolds (1936), Theodore Dreiser (1871), William T. G. Morton (1819), Philip Zimbardo (1933), and Jack Kilby (1923).
1921 - 2016
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 601
1936 - 1991
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 602
1917 - 2014
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 603
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 604
1927 - 2004
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 605
1919 - 1965
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 606
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 607
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 608
1936 - 2018
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 609
1871 - 1945
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 610
1819 - 1868
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 611
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 612
1923 - 2005
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 613
Among chemists born in United States, Marshall Warren Nirenberg ranks 11. Before him are Melvin Calvin (1911), Kary Mullis (1944), Irving Langmuir (1881), John Howard Northrop (1891), Theodore William Richards (1868), and Gilbert N. Lewis (1875). After him are Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Harold Urey (1893), Willard Libby (1908), James B. Sumner (1887), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), and Stanford Moore (1913).
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 5
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 6
1881 - 1957
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 7
1891 - 1987
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 8
1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 9
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 10
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 11
1893 - 1986
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 12
1893 - 1981
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 13
1908 - 1980
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 14
1887 - 1955
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 15
1904 - 1971
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 16
1913 - 1982
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 17