PHYSICIAN

Robert Lefkowitz

1943 - Today

Photo of Robert Lefkowitz

Icon of person Robert Lefkowitz

Robert Joseph Lefkowitz (born April 15, 1943) is an American physician (internist and cardiologist) and biochemist. He is best known for his discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family of G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Brian Kobilka. He is currently an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as a James B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Lefkowitz has received more than 247,015 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Robert Lefkowitz is the 248th most popular physician (down from 238th in 2019), the 2,088th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,960th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Robert Lefkowitz ranks 248 out of 726. Before him are Marcel Petiot, Frederik Ruysch, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Duchenne de Boulogne, Ernst Gräfenberg, and Henry Heimlich. After him are François Magendie, Horst Schumann, Sun Simiao, William Chester Minor, John O'Keefe, and Edward Bach.

Most Popular Physicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Robert Lefkowitz ranks 141. Before him are Robbie Robertson, Richard Sennett, Masafumi Hara, Jack Bruce, Lin Shaye, and Peter Sauber. After him are R. L. Stine, Ove Kindvall, Kurtwood Smith, Jan de Bont, Arturo Merzario, and Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov.

Others Born in 1943

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Lefkowitz ranks 2,088 out of 20,380. Before him are Veronica Lake (1922), William Petersen (1953), William C. Durant (1861), Richard Pryor (1940), Upton Sinclair (1878), and Jennifer Lawrence (1990). After him are Garry Marshall (1934), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Don Walsh (1931), Jermaine Jackson (1954), Jonathan Frakes (1952), and Leo McCarey (1898).

Others born in United States

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Robert Lefkowitz ranks 27. Before him are Louis Ignarro (1941), Peter Agre (1949), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Patch Adams (1945), Randy Schekman (1948), and Henry Heimlich (1920). After him are John O'Keefe (1939), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Richard Axel (1946), Michael DeBakey (1908), and Drew Weissman (1959).

American born Physicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous