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Michael Smith

1932 - 2000

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Michael Smith (April 26, 1932 – October 4, 2000) was a British-born Canadian biochemist and businessman. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kary Mullis for his work in developing site-directed mutagenesis. Following a PhD in 1956 from the University of Manchester, he undertook postdoctoral research with Har Gobind Khorana (himself a Nobel Prize winner) at the British Columbia Research Council in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Smith has received more than 127,024 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Michael Smith is the 259th most popular chemist (down from 220th in 2019), the 1,016th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 953rd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Chemist.

Michael Smith is most famous for being the co-host of the TV show "Good Morning America."

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  • 130k

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  • 65.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Michael Smith ranks 259 out of 602. Before him are Andreas Libavius, Michael Polanyi, Kikunae Ikeda, Arieh Warshel, Dudley R. Herschbach, and Emil Abderhalden. After him are Feodor Lynen, Richard Smalley, Edward W. Morley, Kaoru Ishikawa, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, and Martin Karplus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Michael Smith ranks 97. Before him are Khaled al-Asaad, Walter Gilbert, Tatsuya Nakadai, Nikolai Kardashev, Manmohan Singh, and Dudley R. Herschbach. After him are Delphine Seyrig, Oleg Protopopov, Wojciech Kilar, Ingemar Johansson, Joe Zawinul, and Antonio Tejero. Among people deceased in 2000, Michael Smith ranks 46. Before him are Carlo M. Cipolla, Merton Miller, Akira Nozawa, Leonid Rogozov, A. E. van Vogt, and Frederick Herzberg. After him are Saburō Sakai, Petar Mladenov, Jan Karski, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Yasuo Suzuki, and Moacir Barbosa Nascimento.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Smith ranks 1,016 out of 8,785. Before him are Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford (1505), James Mason (1909), William Whewell (1794), Phil Neville (1977), Henry (1100), and Allan Pinkerton (1819). After him are Harriet Martineau (1802), John Mayall (1933), David Warner (1941), Saint David (512), Princess Hélène of Orléans (1871), and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Michael Smith ranks 33. Before him are Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Herbert C. Brown (1912), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), Thomas Graham (1805), and Ida Noddack (1896). After him are Peter D. Mitchell (1920), William Henry Perkin (1838), William Henry (1774), John Pople (1925), Smithson Tennant (1761), and Martin Lowry (1874).

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