CHEMIST

Richard J. Roberts

1943 - Today

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Sir Richard John Roberts (born 6 September 1943) is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard J. Roberts has received more than 241,182 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard J. Roberts is the 322nd most popular chemist (down from 281st in 2019), the 1,426th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,231st in 2019) and the 44th most popular British Chemist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard J. Roberts ranks 322 out of 602. Before him are William E. Moerner, Edward Frankland, M. Stanley Whittingham, Clemens Winkler, Louis E. Brus, and Charles Friedel. After him are Sendivogius, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Alexandre Brongniart, Frances Arnold, Victor Goldschmidt, and François-Marie Raoult.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Richard J. Roberts ranks 161. Before him are Joan Manuel Serrat, Czesława Kwoka, José Ángel Iribar, Dragan Nikolić, Christine McVie, and Louis E. Brus. After him are Ma'ruf Amin, Inna Churikova, Randy Newman, Blythe Danner, James Levine, and Bill Duke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard J. Roberts ranks 1,426 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Henderson (1945), John William Godward (1861), Julia Ormond (1965), Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721), Sophie Turner (1996), and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799). After him are Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673), Ethel Smyth (1858), Alan Baker (1939), Alison Steadman (1946), Rhys Ifans (1967), and Evelyn De Morgan (1855).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Richard J. Roberts ranks 44. Before him are Smithson Tennant (1761), Martin Lowry (1874), William Prout (1785), Frederick Abel (1827), Edward Frankland (1825), and M. Stanley Whittingham (1941). After him are Fraser Stoddart (1942), Charles Macintosh (1766), Charles Hatchett (1765), Alexander William Williamson (1824), Tim Hunt (1943), and Thomas Andrews (1813).

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