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Roger Y. Tsien

1952 - 2016

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Roger Yonchien Tsien (pronounced , "CHEN"; February 1, 1952 – August 24, 2016) was an American biochemist. He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist Osamu Shimomura and neurobiologist Martin Chalfie. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Y. Tsien has received more than 419,580 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Roger Y. Tsien is the 355th most popular chemist (up from 374th in 2019), the 3,265th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,709th in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Roger Y. Tsien ranks 355 out of 509. Before him are Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Lars Fredrik Nilson, Roy J. Plunkett, Auguste Laurent, Tim Hunt, and Albert Ghiorso. After him are Thomas C. Südhof, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Louis Le Chatelier, George Washington Carver, Brunó Ferenc Straub, and Kazimierz Fajans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Roger Y. Tsien ranks 146. Before him are Annie Potts, David Byrne, David Knopfler, Dirceu, Nikolai Andrianov, and Chuck Lorre. After him are Lars Peter Hansen, Annette O'Toole, Jeff Fahey, Vinnie Vincent, Rainer Bonhof, and Ahmed Ouyahia. Among people deceased in 2016, Roger Y. Tsien ranks 160. Before him are Götz George, Arnold Palmer, Nimr al-Nimr, Abe Vigoda, Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, and Arthur Hiller. After him are Ilse Aichinger, Mahasweta Devi, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, S. R. Nathan, Marc Riboud, and Silvio Gazzaniga.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roger Y. Tsien ranks 3,265 out of 18,182. Before him are Walter Cronkite (1916), George M. Dallas (1792), Steve Harvey (1957), Paul Thomas Anderson (1970), Charles Addams (1912), and Rebecca De Mornay (1959). After him are Eugene Odum (1913), Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), Richie Ginther (1930), Dylan McDermott (1961), and Tyga (1989).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Roger Y. Tsien ranks 70. Before him are Frances Arnold (1956), Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), William E. Moerner (1953), Thomas Cech (1947), Roy J. Plunkett (1910), and Albert Ghiorso (1915). After him are George Washington Carver (1864), Jennifer Doudna (1964), Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), John Tukey (1915), Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), and Roderick MacKinnon (1956).

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