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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 218,625 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Richard J. Roberts is the 281st most popular chemist (up from 308th in 2019), the 1,235th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,410th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Chemist.

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  • 220k

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  • 57.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard J. Roberts ranks 281 out of 509Before him are Thomas A. Steitz, Alexander Shulgin, William Henry, Torbern Bergman, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and Bernard Courtois. After him are S. P. L. Sørensen, Ryōji Noyori, Hartmut Michel, Georg Brandt, Andreas Libavius, and William C. Campbell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Richard J. Roberts ranks 126Before him are Jack Bruce, Mohammed Badie, Griselda Blanco, Oskar Lafontaine, Robert Lefkowitz, and Ken Norton. After him are Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, John Nettles, Lorenzo Sanz, Blythe Danner, Masafumi Hara, and Fouad Siniora.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard J. Roberts ranks 1,235 out of 7,765Before him are Bear Grylls (1974), Eddie Redmayne (1982), Victoria Beckham (1974), Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), and Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874). After him are Carol Reed (1906), Hugh Griffith (1912), Joan Plowright (1929), Alexander I of Scotland (1078), John Nettles (1943), and Catherine Eddowes (1842).

Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Richard J. Roberts ranks 39Before him are John E. Walker (1941), Ida Noddack (1896), Thomas Graham (1805), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), Fraser Stoddart (1942), and William Henry (1774). After him are Martin Lowry (1874), Edward Frankland (1825), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), Smithson Tennant (1761), Charles Macintosh (1766), and William Prout (1785).