PHYSICIAN

Randy Schekman

1948 - Today

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Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust launching in 2012. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Randy Schekman has received more than 280,740 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Randy Schekman is the 241st most popular physician (up from 307th in 2019), the 1,990th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,897th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Randy Schekman ranks 241 out of 726. Before him are John Hunter, Vladimir Dal, Hieronymus Fabricius, Norman Bethune, Hans Berger, and Ernst-Robert Grawitz. After him are Marcel Petiot, Frederik Ruysch, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Duchenne de Boulogne, Ernst Gräfenberg, and Henry Heimlich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Randy Schekman ranks 126. Before him are Krešimir Ćosić, Carel Struycken, Donna Karan, James Faulkner, David Albahari, and Joschka Fischer. After him are Rhea Perlman, Christopher A. Pissarides, Rubén Blades, István Sándorfi, Kemal Monteno, and Mate Parlov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Randy Schekman ranks 1,990 out of 20,380. Before him are Joe Lynn Turner (1951), Bill Paxton (1955), Amber Heard (1986), Gene Vincent (1935), Billy Preston (1946), and Andie MacDowell (1958). After him are Candice Bergen (1946), Frank Borzage (1894), Samuel Adams (1722), Hubert Humphrey (1911), Eartha Kitt (1927), and Hayden White (1928).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Randy Schekman ranks 25. Before him are Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Joseph Murray (1919), Louis Ignarro (1941), Peter Agre (1949), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), and Patch Adams (1945). After him are Henry Heimlich (1920), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), John O'Keefe (1939), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), and Richard Axel (1946).

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