BIOLOGIST

Phillip Allen Sharp

1944 - Today

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Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Phillip Allen Sharp has received more than 236,254 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Phillip Allen Sharp is the 323rd most popular biologist (down from 295th in 2019), the 3,015th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,954th in 2019) and the 57th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Phillip Allen Sharp ranks 323 out of 1,097. Before him are Gregory Goodwin Pincus, John Sulston, Rupert Sheldrake, Bruce Beutler, Charles Chamberland, and Eugenius Warming. After him are Michał Boym, Armen Takhtajan, Erich von Tschermak, Philibert Commerson, Auguste Chevalier, and Alexander von Nordmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Phillip Allen Sharp ranks 234. Before him are Robert Hanssen, Jeffrey Tambor, Ulf Stark, Claude Nicollier, Mauro Piacenza, and Džemaludin Mušović. After him are Abdul Fatah Younis, Tim Rice, Gabor Maté, Richard Leakey, Ivica Račan, and Péter Eötvös.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Phillip Allen Sharp ranks 3,015 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Jarvis (1878), Tim Russ (1956), John Hughes (1950), Dominic Chianese (1931), Oliver Winchester (1810), and Robert Rossen (1908). After him are Dylan McDermott (1961), Liev Schreiber (1967), Robert Morris (1931), Richard Lester (1932), Dana Delany (1956), and Octavia Spencer (1972).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Phillip Allen Sharp ranks 57. Before him are Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), David Julius (1955), David Baltimore (1938), James P. Allison (1948), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), and Bruce Beutler (1957). After him are George Ord (1781), Craig Venter (1946), Esther Lederberg (1922), Wilder Penfield (1891), Andrew Fire (1959), and Joel Asaph Allen (1838).

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