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Robert W. Holley

1922 - 1993

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Robert William Holley (January 28, 1922 – February 11, 1993) was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 (with Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall Warren Nirenberg) for describing the structure of alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis. Holley was born in Urbana, Illinois, and graduated from Urbana High School in 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert W. Holley has received more than 145,285 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Robert W. Holley is the 179th most popular chemist (down from 139th in 2019), the 1,114th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,017th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Robert W. Holley ranks 179 out of 602. Before him are Sophia Brahe, Johann Josef Loschmidt, John Macleod, Robert F. Furchgott, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, and Giulio Natta. After him are Richard F. Heck, Germain Henri Hess, John Cornforth, Stanley Miller, Paul D. Boyer, and John E. Walker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Robert W. Holley ranks 53. Before him are Cornelius Castoriadis, Ademir de Menezes, Leon M. Lederman, Michel Galabru, Betty White, and Har Gobind Khorana. After him are Juan Antonio Villacañas, Mao Anying, Francesco Rosi, Jake LaMotta, Blake Edwards, and Alberto Granado. Among people deceased in 1993, Robert W. Holley ranks 32. Before him are Dizzy Gillespie, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, W. Edwards Deming, Lillian Gish, Cantinflas, and Arthur Ashe. After him are Vincent Price, Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Severo Ochoa, Jean Negulesco, Masahiko Kimura, and Léon Theremin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert W. Holley ranks 1,114 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard Serra (1939), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), Edmund Phelps (1933), Meir Kahane (1932), Mark Wahlberg (1971), and Andrew Dickson White (1832). After him are Meg Ryan (1961), Shelley Duvall (1949), Lewis A. Swift (1820), Suzi Quatro (1950), James Gandolfini (1961), and Lawrence Klein (1920).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Robert W. Holley ranks 31. Before him are Julius Axelrod (1912), Kary Mullis (1944), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Jerome Karle (1918), Paul Flory (1910), and Robert F. Furchgott (1916). After him are Richard F. Heck (1931), Stanley Miller (1930), Paul D. Boyer (1918), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Robert S. Mulliken (1896), and Paul L. Modrich (1946).

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