BIOLOGIST

Martin Evans

1941 - Today

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Sir Martin John Evans FLSW (born 1 January 1941) is an English biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981. He is also known, along with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies, for his work in the development of the knockout mouse and the related technology of gene targeting, a method of using embryonic stem cells to create specific gene modifications in mice. In 2007, the three shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their discovery and contribution to the efforts to develop new treatments for illnesses in humans.He won a major scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge at a time when advances in genetics were occurring there and became interested in biology and biochemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Evans has received more than 188,055 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Martin Evans is the 153rd most popular biologist (down from 130th in 2019), the 872nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 891st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Martin Evans by language

Over the past year Martin Evans has had the most page views in the with 18,329 views, followed by Spanish (4,194), and Chinese (3,190). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbian (107.31%), Ido (72.39%), and Basque (66.36%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Martin Evans ranks 153 out of 1,097. Before him are Walther Flemming, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Julius Richard Petri, and Adolf Engler. After him are George Davis Snell, Leland H. Hartwell, Norman Borlaug, Salvador Luria, Olaus Rudbeck, and Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Martin Evans ranks 92. Before him are Eric Burdon, Aimé Jacquet, Kenji Tochio, Eduardo Duhalde, Stephen Frears, and Anne Rice. After him are Suzanne Mubarak, Alfred G. Gilman, Igor Smirnov, Toyo Ito, Jacqueline Boyer, and Michael Stuart Brown.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Evans ranks 872 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), Boris Karloff (1887), Rishi Sunak (1980), Daniel Burley Woolfall (1852), and Frederick Griffith (1879). After him are Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (1770), Benedict Cumberbatch (1976), Robert Clive (1725), Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (1915), Emily Davison (1872), and Charlotte Cooper (1870).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Martin Evans ranks 23. Before him are Julian Huxley (1887), John Gurdon (1933), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), John Ray (1627), William Carey (1761), and William Bateson (1861). After him are John Boyd Orr (1880), Anna Atkins (1799), George Robert Gray (1808), Ian Wilmut (1944), Henry Walter Bates (1825), and George Shaw (1751).

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