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BIOLOGIST

Mary-Claire King

1946 - Today

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Mary-Claire King (born February 27, 1946) is an American geneticist. She was the first to show that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the gene she called BRCA1. She studies human genetics and is particularly interested in genetic heterogeneity and complex traits. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary-Claire King has received more than 267,373 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mary-Claire King is the 753rd most popular biologist (up from 813th in 2019), the 7,189th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,231st in 2019) and the 103rd most popular American Biologist.

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  • 270k

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  • 45.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mary-Claire King ranks 753 out of 841. Before her are Albert Charles Smith, Hermann Harms, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Johann Jakob Kaup, William Henry Harvey, and Hugh Edwin Strickland. After her are Gaston Bonnier, Nigel Marven, Stanley Norman Cohen, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, Ruth Arnon, and Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Mary-Claire King ranks 482. Before her are Larry Graham, Roy Wood, Mark Snow, José Lai, Dennis Muren, and Vladimir Martynov. After her are Ali Parvin, Wolfgang Kleff, Ángel Bargas, Stanislav Karasi, Angéla Németh, and Marc Faber.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary-Claire King ranks 7,189 out of 18,182. Before her are Bruce Glover (1932), Marc Davis (1913), Lyman Lemnitzer (1899), Barry McGuire (1935), Richard Riehle (1948), and Patty McCormack (1945). After her are Richard Mulligan (1932), Stan Musial (1920), Terry Kinney (1954), Tom Peters (1942), George Tenet (1953), and Ted Chiang (1967).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Mary-Claire King ranks 103. Before her are Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), Theobald Smith (1859), Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835), Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890), Robert Trivers (1943), and Albert Charles Smith (1906). After her are Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Sam Harris (1967), Sereno Watson (1826), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Judah Folkman (1933), and Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823).

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