BIOLOGIST

Michael Sela

1924 - 2022

Photo of Michael Sela

Icon of person Michael Sela

Michael Sela (Hebrew: מיכאל סלע; Mieczysław Salomonowicz; 2 March 1924 – 27 May 2022) was an Israeli immunologist of Polish Jewish origin. He was the W. Garfield Weston Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Sela has received more than 45,294 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Sela is the 654th most popular biologist, the 909th most popular biography from Poland and the 13th most popular Polish Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 45k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Michael Sela ranks 654 out of 1,097. Before him are Josef August Schultes, Władysław Taczanowski, Pier Andrea Saccardo, John Sims, Tommaso Salvadori, and Nicolaus Michael Oppel. After him are Jean René Constant Quoy, John du Pont, Jacob Bjerknes, George Albert Boulenger, Ferdinand Albin Pax, and Mary-Claire King.

Most Popular Biologists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Michael Sela ranks 294. Before him are Karel Kachyňa, Ricardo Infante, William Rehnquist, Abdulah Gegić, Yuri Bondarev, and Leonard Rosenman. After him are Lola Albright, Oldřich Lipský, Yvonne Loriod, Renia Spiegel, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, and Valerio Bacigalupo. Among people deceased in 2022, Michael Sela ranks 317. Before him are Lidiya Alfeyeva, Greg Bear, Rodri, Wilko Johnson, John Steiner, and Rafael Chimishkyan. After him are Yoshishige Yoshida, Shivkumar Sharma, Halyna Sevruk, Piero Angela, Mickey Kuhn, and Julio Morales.

Others Born in 1924

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2022

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Michael Sela ranks 909 out of 1,694. Before him are Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1778), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Karolina Kózka (1898), Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), Abraham Brill (1874), and Adam Zamenhof (1888). After him are Jan T. Gross (1947), Ingrid Pitt (1937), Otto Toeplitz (1881), Helena Rakoczy (1921), Jakub Berman (1901), and Ingrid van Bergen (1931).

Others born in Poland

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Michael Sela ranks 13. Before him are C. L. Gloger (1803), Gustav Radde (1831), Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799), Martin Rathke (1793), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), and Władysław Taczanowski (1819). After him are Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), Heinrich Göppert (1800), Johannes Thiele (1860), Aharon Katzir (1914), Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925), and Walter Migula (1863).

Polish born Biologists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous