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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 125,832 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Martin Rodbell is the 264th most popular chemist (up from 295th in 2019), the 1,813th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,120th in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Martin Rodbell ranks 264 out of 509Before him are Carl Auer von Welsbach, Roger D. Kornberg, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Emil Abderhalden, and Alexander Butlerov. After him are Luis Federico Leloir, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Vladimir Markovnikov, Hideki Shirakawa, Alan MacDiarmid, and Richard Smalley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Martin Rodbell ranks 97Before him are Robert Hardy, Hildegard Knef, Nicolai Gedda, Veljko Kadijević, William Styron, and Sammy Davis Jr.. After him are Tom Gehrels, Ernesto Cardenal, Georges Delerue, Justo Gallego Martínez, Lepa Radić, and Dettmar Cramer. Among people deceased in 1998, Martin Rodbell ranks 57Before him are Wolf Vostell, Sonny Bono, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Benjamin Spock, Kurt Franz, and Nguyễn Ngọc Loan. After him are Roddy McDowall, Kenichi Fukui, Marie-Louise von Franz, Anne Desclos, Remo Giazotto, and Marie-Louise Meilleur.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Rodbell ranks 1,813 out of 18,182Before him are Arthur Danto (1924), Robert Moog (1934), Ira Levin (1929), Stephen Sondheim (1930), Isaac Hayes (1942), and Don Rosa (1951). After him are Lucy Liu (1968), Fred Phelps (1929), R. Kelly (1967), Joe Mantegna (1947), Henry Bergman (1868), and Paul Desmond (1924).

Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Martin Rodbell ranks 55Before him are Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), Edward W. Morley (1838), Donald J. Cram (1919), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), and Roger D. Kornberg (1947). After him are Richard Smalley (1943), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Alexander Shulgin (1925), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), and Edwin G. Krebs (1918).