BIOLOGIST

Paul Greengard

1925 - 2019

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Paul Greengard (December 11, 1925 – April 13, 2019) was an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system. He was Vincent Astor Professor at Rockefeller University, and served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cure Alzheimer's Fund, as well as the Scientific Council of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Greengard has received more than 208,249 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Greengard is the 171st most popular biologist (down from 159th in 2019), the 1,503rd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,565th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Paul Greengard ranks 171 out of 1,097. Before him are Johan Christian Fabricius, Renato Dulbecco, Georges J. F. Köhler, Pierre André Latreille, Erik Acharius, and César Milstein. After him are John Boyd Orr, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Ana Aslan, Wilhelm Johannsen, George Wald, and Giuseppe Acerbi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Paul Greengard ranks 87. Before him are Hal Holbrook, Joshua Lederberg, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Harry Harrison, Gabriele Ferzetti, and Sufi Abu Taleb. After him are Willi Herold, Bill Haley, Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Nicolai Gedda, Dettmar Cramer, and Tom Gehrels. Among people deceased in 2019, Paul Greengard ranks 71. Before him are Yury Luzhkov, Matti Nykänen, Michael Atiyah, Rosamunde Pilcher, Alicia Alonso, and Ratko Janev. After him are Dragoslav Šekularac, Jan-Michael Vincent, Vladimir Bukovsky, John Robert Schrieffer, Nikolai Kardashev, and Luke Perry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Greengard ranks 1,503 out of 20,380. Before him are David Graf (1950), Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), Merton Miller (1923), Kalākaua (1836), Macaulay Culkin (1980), and Patrick McGoohan (1928). After him are Matt LeBlanc (1967), Robert Sheckley (1928), Sam Cooke (1931), James Van Allen (1914), Gary Ridgway (1949), and Charles Mingus (1922).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Paul Greengard ranks 30. Before him are J. Michael Bishop (1936), George Davis Snell (1903), Leland H. Hartwell (1939), Norman Borlaug (1914), Joshua Lederberg (1925), and Robert Whittaker (1920). After him are George Wald (1906), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Daniel Nathans (1928), Asa Gray (1810), and Temple Grandin (1947).

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