BIOLOGIST

Mary F. Lyon

1925 - 2014

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Mary Frances Lyon (15 May 1925 – 25 December 2014) was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important biological phenomenon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary F. Lyon has received more than 90,945 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mary F. Lyon is the 751st most popular biologist (down from 719th in 2019), the 3,636th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,603rd in 2019) and the 101st most popular British Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 91k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mary F. Lyons by language

Over the past year Mary F. Lyon has had the most page views in the with 10,526 views, followed by Chinese (2,001), and Spanish (1,818). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (93.51%), Czech (87.27%), and Egyptian Arabic (29.29%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mary F. Lyon ranks 751 out of 1,097. Before her are Auguste Duméril, Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, David Ho, Louis Fraser, Neil Campbell, and George Romanes. After her are Charles Wyville Thomson, August W. Eichler, Pál Kitaibel, Michele Tenore, John Gerard, and Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Mary F. Lyon ranks 363. Before her are Toma Caragiu, Olga Aroseva, Irina Arkhipova, Pasieguito, Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, and Borislav Stanković. After her are Elisabeth Domitien, Alki Zei, John Fiedler, Tony Benn, Roque Olsen, and Alfred Kelbassa. Among people deceased in 2014, Mary F. Lyon ranks 323. Before her are Nadya Nozharova, Suchitra Sen, Casey Kasem, Régine Deforges, Joe Sample, and Jimmy Ellis. After her are Hal Finney, Bengt Eriksson, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Frans van der Lugt, Dorothy Tyler-Odam, and Dietmar Schönherr.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary F. Lyon ranks 3,636 out of 8,785. Before her are Richard Hughes (1900), Ron Geesin (1943), A. E. Housman (1859), Gerry Anderson (1929), Eddie Colman (1936), and Christopher O'Neill (1974). After her are John Smith (1938), Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), Sydney Greenstreet (1879), Roger Dean (1944), George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697), and David Dunbar Buick (1854).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Mary F. Lyon ranks 101. Before her are John Belchier (1706), John Richardson (1787), Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Miriam Rothschild (1908), John Anderson (1833), and Louis Fraser (1810). After her are Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), John Gerard (1545), Albert Bruce Jackson (1876), James Sowerby (1757), William Thomas Blanford (1832), and Henry Baker (1698).

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