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Peter Agre

1949 - Today

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Peter Agre (; born January 30, 1949) is an American physician, Nobel Laureate, and molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. In 2003, Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes." Agre was recognized for his discovery of aquaporin water channels. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Agre has received more than 261,365 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Peter Agre is the 194th most popular physician (up from 251st in 2019), the 1,564th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,177th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Peter Agre ranks 194 out of 726Before him are Maurice Bucaille, Guy de Chauliac, Leonhart Fuchs, Sebastian Kneipp, Heo Jun, and Louis Ignarro. After him are Paul Gachet, Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Neferkare Neby, Albert Calmette, Ludwig Guttmann, and Waldemar Hoven.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Peter Agre ranks 84Before him are Brahim Ghali, Carl Bildt, Margareta of Romania, Gary Ridgway, Svetislav Pešić, and Valeriy Borzov. After him are Paloma Picasso, Bei Dao, Larry Holmes, Annie Leibovitz, Quini, and Josephine Chaplin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Agre ranks 1,564 out of 20,380Before him are Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Chris Cooper (1951), Burt Bacharach (1928), Ken Kesey (1935), Vint Cerf (1943), and Louis Ignarro (1941). After him are Holland Taylor (1943), Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), Peter Dinklage (1969), Paul Revere (1735), Rollo May (1909), and Jeremy Rifkin (1945).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Peter Agre ranks 22Before him are George H. Hitchings (1905), George Whipple (1878), Robin Cook (1940), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Joseph Murray (1919), and Louis Ignarro (1941). After him are Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Patch Adams (1945), Randy Schekman (1948), Henry Heimlich (1920), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), and John O'Keefe (1939).