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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 250,944 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Peter Agre is the 251st most popular physician (down from 234th in 2019), the 2,179th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,003rd in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Peter Agre ranks 251 out of 502Before him are Philipp Franz von Siebold, Thomas Addison, August Oetker, Adolf Eugen Fick, Constantine the African, and Vladimir Dal. After him are Karl Adolph von Basedow, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Aëtius of Amida, Robert Darwin, John Harvey Kellogg, and Caspar Friedrich Wolff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Peter Agre ranks 121Before him are Ronnie Hellström, Kgalema Motlanthe, David Strathairn, Michael Richards, Andy Kaufman, and Robert Sternberg. After him are Quini, Geezer Butler, Tom Pryce, John Toshack, Brad Davis, and Fernando Collor de Mello.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Agre ranks 2,179 out of 18,182Before him are Jack Warden (1920), Robert Smithson (1938), Fred Willard (1939), Whitey Bulger (1929), Alyssa Milano (1972), and Tony Lip (1930). After him are Henry J. Heinz (1844), Maria Mitchell (1818), Neil Sedaka (1939), Robert Gallo (1937), Lisa Bonet (1967), and Prescott Bush (1895).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Peter Agre ranks 29Before him are George Whipple (1878), Henry Heimlich (1920), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), Jack Kevorkian (1928), John O'Keefe (1939), and Robert Lefkowitz (1943). After him are John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Harvey Cushing (1869), Michael DeBakey (1908), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Helen B. Taussig (1898), and Charles Best (1899).