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BIOLOGIST

Martin Chalfie

1947 - Today

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Martin Lee Chalfie (born January 15, 1947) is an American scientist. He is University Professor at Columbia University. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Chalfie has received more than 180,595 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Martin Chalfie is the 240th most popular biologist (up from 307th in 2019), the 2,537th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,976th in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 55.36

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  • 53

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  • 8.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Martin Chalfie ranks 240 out of 841Before him are Joseph Gaertner, Pieter Boddaert, Hieronymus Bock, James Dwight Dana, Sergei Winogradsky, and Josias Braun-Blanquet. After him are Joy Adamson, Otto Brunfels, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Michał Boym, Félix d'Herelle, and Johann Baptist von Spix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Martin Chalfie ranks 150Before him are Jaume Cabré, Nevio Scala, Ben Cross, Mia Martini, Tadahiko Ueda, and Olavo de Carvalho. After him are Gerhard Ludwig Müller, John Adams, Helena Vondráčková, David Helfgott, Philippe Herreweghe, and Hugh Keays-Byrne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Chalfie ranks 2,537 out of 18,182Before him are Jason Newsted (1963), Jerry Fodor (1935), Lizzie Borden (1860), Katie Holmes (1978), Beverly D'Angelo (1951), and George William Hill (1838). After him are Katharine Ross (1940), Eleanor Parker (1922), Irving Baxter (1876), Lana Del Rey (1985), Bill Nunn (1953), and Melvil Dewey (1851).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Martin Chalfie ranks 50Before him are Michael Rosbash (1944), Michael W. Young (1949), Bruce Beutler (1957), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), Craig Venter (1946), and James Dwight Dana (1813). After him are David Julius (1955), Wilder Penfield (1891), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), Carol W. Greider (1961), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), and Phillip Allen Sharp (1944).