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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Evans has received more than 189,634 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Martin Evans is the 131st most popular biologist (up from 164th in 2019), the 892nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,089th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Biologist.

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  • 49

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  • 11.55

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  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Martin Evans ranks 131 out of 841. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Steller, Ralph M. Steinman, Armand David, Gaspard Bauhin, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, and Aimé Bonpland. After him are Edward B. Lewis, Carl Woese, Elias Magnus Fries, James Bond, Walther Flemming, and Macfarlane Burnet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Martin Evans ranks 84. Before him are Jacques Perrin, Michael Stuart Brown, Cass Elliot, Kyu Sakamoto, Graham Chapman, and Linda McCartney. After him are Aimé Jacquet, Bertrand Tavernier, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., Robert Wilson, William Nordhaus, and Carlo Maria Viganò.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Evans ranks 892 out of 7,765. Before him are James Lovelock (1919), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Robert Clive (1725), Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594), Michael Atiyah (1929), and Andy Serkis (1964). After him are Mairead Maguire (1944), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), Patrick Blackett (1897), Mark Strong (1963), John Mayall (1933), and Henry Tingle Wilde (1872).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Martin Evans ranks 22. Before him are William Carey (1761), Philip Sclater (1829), John Ray (1627), Archibald Hill (1886), Oliver Smithies (1925), and William Bateson (1861). After him are Desmond Morris (1928), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Anna Atkins (1799), Michael Houghton (1949), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), and Joseph Banks (1743).

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