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 286,056 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mary-Claire King is the 660th most popular biologist (up from 752nd in 2019), the 5,974th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,174th in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Biologist.

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  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mary-Claire King ranks 660 out of 1,097. Before her are Michael Sela, Jean René Constant Quoy, John du Pont, Jacob Bjerknes, George Albert Boulenger, and Ferdinand Albin Pax. After her are Walter Sutton, David Starr Jordan, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Jinzō Matsumura, Amotz Zahavi, and Robert Swinhoe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Mary-Claire King ranks 443. Before her are Harry Vos, Vinod Khanna, Leonid Filatov, Lidiya Alfeyeva, Gram Parsons, and Stephen McHattie. After her are Tadevuš Kandrusievič, Antonis Antoniadis, Juan Pons, Bernard Dowiyogo, Natalya Arinbasarova, and Noddy Holder.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary-Claire King ranks 5,974 out of 20,380. Before her are David Gale (1921), James Marsters (1962), Ossie Davis (1917), Gary Dourdan (1966), Don Wilson (1954), and Harold Agnew (1921). After her are John Agar (1921), Richard N. Frye (1920), John Randolph (1915), Michael J. Pollard (1939), Daniel Burnham (1846), and Emily Kinney (1985).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Mary-Claire King ranks 91. Before her are Jack Horner (1946), Alfred Sturtevant (1891), George C. Williams (1926), Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), Charles David Keeling (1928), and John du Pont (1938). After her are Walter Sutton (1877), David Starr Jordan (1851), Samuel Garman (1843), Jane Colden (1724), Richard Lewontin (1929), and George Newbold Lawrence (1806).

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