BIOLOGIST

Michael Rosbash

1944 - Today

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Michael Morris Rosbash (born March 7, 1944) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Rosbash is a professor and researcher at Brandeis University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research group cloned the Drosophila period gene in 1984 and proposed the Transcription Translation Negative Feedback Loop for circadian clocks in 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Rosbash has received more than 263,377 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Michael Rosbash is the 257th most popular biologist (down from 216th in 2019), the 2,371st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,287th in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Michael Rosbash ranks 257 out of 1,097. Before him are Alexander Georg von Bunge, Morten Thrane Brünnich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, Joseph Dalton Hooker, and Eduard Rüppell. After him are Carol W. Greider, Sergei Winogradsky, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, James Bond, and John Lindley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Michael Rosbash ranks 182. Before him are António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Christine Chubbuck, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, Alvin Lee, Rosalía Mera, and Jacques Doillon. After him are Ton Koopman, Craig T. Nelson, Pierre Deligne, Kim Yong-il, Leif Segerstam, and Terry Funk.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Rosbash ranks 2,371 out of 20,380. Before him are James Ellroy (1948), Christine Chubbuck (1944), Sugar Ray Leonard (1956), Rob Reiner (1947), Pauley Perrette (1969), and Roger Myerson (1951). After him are Johnston McCulley (1883), Royal Rife (1888), Joanna Cassidy (1945), Carol W. Greider (1961), Betty Robinson (1911), and Andy Williams (1927).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Michael Rosbash ranks 47. Before him are Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), George Smith (1941), Charles M. Rice (1952), Howard Martin Temin (1934), James Rothman (1950), and Martin Chalfie (1947). After him are Carol W. Greider (1961), James Bond (1900), Henrietta Lacks (1920), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), David Julius (1955), and David Baltimore (1938).

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