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Martin Rodbell

1925 - 1998

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Martin Rodbell (December 1, 1925 – December 7, 1998) was an American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who is best known for his discovery of G-proteins. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Rodbell has received more than 134,221 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Martin Rodbell is the 275th most popular chemist (down from 264th in 2019), the 1,745th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,812th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Martin Rodbell ranks 275 out of 602. Before him are Peter D. Mitchell, Wilfrid Voynich, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Vladimir Markovnikov, Richard Abegg, and William Henry Perkin. After him are William Henry, Kamala Sohonie, Akira Yoshino, Robert H. Grubbs, Georg Brandt, and Carl Auer von Welsbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Martin Rodbell ranks 96. Before him are Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Nicolai Gedda, Dettmar Cramer, Tom Gehrels, Hugo Koblet, and Sammy Davis Jr.. After him are Honor Blackman, Uzi Narkiss, Tofiq Bahramov, John Pople, Georges Delerue, and Ernesto Cardenal. Among people deceased in 1998, Martin Rodbell ranks 54. Before him are Maria Reiche, Marie-Louise von Franz, James Earl Ray, Sonny Bono, Ernst-Günther Schenck, and Cozy Powell. After him are Lloyd Bridges, Kamala Sohonie, Verner Panton, Gulzarilal Nanda, Fritz Honka, and Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Rodbell ranks 1,745 out of 20,380. Before him are Sammy Davis Jr. (1925), Ving Rhames (1959), Sol LeWitt (1928), Henry Ford II (1917), John Fogerty (1945), and Barbara Bel Geddes (1922). After him are Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Stephen Lang (1952), Aaron Copland (1900), George Gaylord Simpson (1902), Margaret Keane (1927), and Robert Moog (1934).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Martin Rodbell ranks 58. Before him are Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), Walter Gilbert (1932), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), Richard Smalley (1943), Edward W. Morley (1838), and Edwin G. Krebs (1918). After him are Robert H. Grubbs (1942), Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), Thomas Cech (1947), and Alexander Shulgin (1925).

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