1949 - Today
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, Peter Agre ranks 251 out of 502. Before 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.
1796 - 1866
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 245
1793 - 1860
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 246
1862 - 1918
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 247
1829 - 1901
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 248
1020 - 1087
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 249
1801 - 1872
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 250
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 251
1799 - 1854
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 252
1162 - 1231
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 253
502 - 575
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 254
1766 - 1848
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 255
1852 - 1943
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 256
1735 - 1794
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 257
Among people born in 1949, Peter Agre ranks 121. Before 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.
1949 - 2022
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 115
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 116
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 117
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 118
1949 - 1984
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 119
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 120
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 121
1949 - 2018
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 122
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 123
1949 - 1977
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 124
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 125
1949 - 1991
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 126
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 127
Among people born in United States, Peter Agre ranks 2,179 out of 18,182. Before 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).
1920 - 2006
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 2,173
1938 - 1973
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 2,174
1939 - 2020
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 2,175
1929 - 2018
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 2,176
1972 - Present
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 2,177
1930 - 2013
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 2,178
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 2,179
1844 - 1919
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 2,180
1818 - 1889
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 2,181
1939 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 2,182
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 2,183
1967 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 2,184
1895 - 1972
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 2,185
Among physicians born in United States, Peter Agre ranks 29. Before 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).
1878 - 1976
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 23
1920 - 2016
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 24
1895 - 1973
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 25
1928 - 2011
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 26
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 27
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 28
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 29
1852 - 1943
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 30
1869 - 1939
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 31
1908 - 2008
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 32
1828 - 1917
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 33
1898 - 1986
HPI: 54.41
Rank: 34
1899 - 1978
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 35