BIOLOGIST

Roger Guillemin

1924 - 2024

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Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (French pronunciation: [ʁɔʒe ʃaʁl lwi ɡijmɛ̃]; January 11, 1924 – February 21, 2024) was a French-American neuroscientist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Guillemin has received more than 159,726 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Roger Guillemin is the 50th most popular biologist (up from 73rd in 2019), the 671st most popular biography from France (up from 882nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Biologist.

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  • 160k

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  • 65.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Roger Guillemin ranks 50 out of 1,097. Before him are Christian de Duve, Hans Spemann, Peter Simon Pallas, Richard Owen, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. After him are Hugo Theorell, Albert Claude, Jean-Henri Fabre, François Jacob, Sylvia Earle, and Hugo de Vries.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Roger Guillemin ranks 26. Before him are Maurice Jarre, Benny Hill, Georges Charpak, Jovanka Broz, Ramiz Alia, and Willard Boyle. After him are Robert Solow, James Baldwin, Mário Soares, Sidney Lumet, Kōbō Abe, and Black Dahlia. Among people deceased in 2024, Roger Guillemin ranks 31. Before him are Akira Toriyama, Johan Galtung, Niklaus Wirth, Frank Farian, Carl Weathers, and Quincy Jones. After him are Kurt Hamrin, Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Dries van Agt, Tsung-Dao Lee, Andreas Brehme, and Ebrahim Raisi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roger Guillemin ranks 671 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Nouvel (1945), Nicolas Fouquet (1615), Édouard Lalo (1823), Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus (-90), Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France (1290), and Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528). After him are Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Pope Stephen IX (1020), Jean Jaurès (1859), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608), and Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Roger Guillemin ranks 9. Before him are Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Luc Montagnier (1932), Charles Richet (1850), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683). After him are Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656).

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