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BIOLOGIST

Michael Houghton

1949 - Today

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Sir Michael Houghton (born 1949) is a British scientist and Nobel Prize laureate. Along with Qui-Lim Choo, George Kuo and Daniel W. Bradley, he co-discovered Hepatitis C in 1989. He also co-discovered the Hepatitis D genome in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Houghton has received more than 11,314 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Houghton is the 169th most popular biologist, the 1,052nd most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 26th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 11k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Michael Houghton ranks 169 out of 841. Before him are Peter Medawar, Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann, César Milstein, Renato Dulbecco, and Louis Agassiz. After him are Temple Grandin, John B. Calhoun, Hans Driesch, Wilbur Scoville, Stephen Jay Gould, and Edward Tatum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Michael Houghton ranks 75. Before him are Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Philippe Starck, José Ramos-Horta, Teófilo Cubillas, Valentina Matviyenko, and Peter Shilton. After him are Twiggy, Axel Honneth, Carl Bildt, Margareta of Romania, Brahim Ghali, and Horst Ludwig Störmer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Houghton ranks 1,052 out of 7,765. Before him are Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854), George Biddell Airy (1801), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), Alan Parsons (1948), and David Hamilton (1933). After him are Kim Wilde (1960), Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900), Stewart Granger (1913), Mary Ann Nichols (1845), Twiggy (1949), and James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Michael Houghton ranks 26. Before him are Oliver Smithies (1925), William Bateson (1861), Martin Evans (1941), Desmond Morris (1928), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), and Anna Atkins (1799). After him are J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Joseph Banks (1743), Charles Bell (1774), Henry Walter Bates (1825), John Boyd Orr (1880), and Thomas Browne (1605).

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