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Sidney Altman

1939 - 2022

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Sidney Altman (May 7, 1939 – April 5, 2022) was a Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sidney Altman has received more than 194,692 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Sidney Altman is the 234th most popular chemist (down from 209th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Canada (down from 57th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Chemist.

Sidney Altman is most famous for his discovery of catalytic RNA, which showed that RNA molecules can act as enzymes and catalyze chemical reactions. This discovery earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989.

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  • 190k

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  • 59.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Sidney Altman ranks 234 out of 509. Before him are Friedrich Sertürner, William Lipscomb, Nikolay Semyonov, William Hyde Wollaston, Mária Telkes, and John E. Walker. After him are Richard F. Heck, Nikolay Zelinsky, Mario J. Molina, Paul L. Modrich, Joseph L. Goldstein, and Henri Victor Regnault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Sidney Altman ranks 73. Before him are Dale T. Mortensen, Eugene Fama, Claudio Magris, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Emil Constantinescu, and Pak Pong-ju. After him are Fritjof Capra, Bernard Kouchner, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Ion Țiriac, Cynthia Lennon, and Ruud Lubbers. Among people deceased in 2022, Sidney Altman ranks 79. Before him are Issey Miyake, Valeri Polyakov, Margarita Lozano, Shintaro Ishihara, Angelo Badalamenti, and Luis Echeverría. After him are Leonid Kuravlyov, Frank Drake, Gary Brooker, Kirstie Alley, Olga Szabó-Orbán, and Cüneyt Arkın.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Sidney Altman ranks 63 out of 1,350. Before him are Pamela Anderson (1967), Glenn Ford (1916), Maud Lewis (1903), Ryan Gosling (1980), Mack Sennett (1880), and John Candy (1950). After him are Mike Myers (1963), Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (1943), Oscar Peterson (1925), David H. Hubel (1926), Linda Evangelista (1965), and Edward Dmytryk (1908).

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Among CHEMISTS In Canada

Among chemists born in Canada, Sidney Altman ranks 2. Before him are William Giauque (1895). After him are Rudolph A. Marcus (1923), Henry Taube (1915), and Maud Menten (1879).

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