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BIOLOGIST

Paul Nurse

1949 - Today

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Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Nurse has received more than 603,929 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Paul Nurse is the 355th most popular biologist (up from 721st in 2019), the 2,048th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,631st in 2019) and the 57th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 600k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Paul Nurse ranks 355 out of 841Before him are Göran Wahlenberg, Antonio José Cavanilles, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Odoardo Beccari, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, and John Maynard Smith. After him are John Ellis, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Pehr Kalm, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, William Hudson, and Luther Burbank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Paul Nurse ranks 195Before him are Aurelio De Laurentiis, Alain Finkielkraut, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Rasim Delić, Steve Perry, and Ariel Henry. After him are Bernard Farcy, Ottavia Piccolo, Juha Mieto, Jorge Bucay, Jens Böhrnsen, and Gabriel Yared.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul Nurse ranks 2,048 out of 7,765Before him are John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316), F. H. Bradley (1846), Michael Powell (1905), Gordon Milne (1937), Michael Dummett (1925), and James Glaisher (1809). After him are William Cullen (1710), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967), Jimmy Savile (1926), Mike Rutherford (1950), and Ken Aston (1915).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Paul Nurse ranks 57Before him are Ian Wilmut (1944), John Stevens Henslow (1796), John Needham (1713), John Sulston (1942), William Speirs Bruce (1867), and John Maynard Smith (1920). After him are William Hudson (1730), Oldfield Thomas (1858), Francis Darwin (1848), William Aiton (1731), Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), and George Bentham (1800).