BIOLOGIST

Stanley Norman Cohen

1935 - Today

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Stanley Norman Cohen (born February 17, 1935) is an American geneticist and the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine. Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer were the first scientists to transplant genes from one living organism to another, a fundamental discovery for genetical engineering. Thousands of products have been developed on the basis of their work, including human growth hormone and hepatitis B vaccine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanley Norman Cohen has received more than 215,446 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Stanley Norman Cohen is the 861st most popular biologist (down from 755th in 2019), the 8,164th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,185th in 2019) and the 119th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 46.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Stanley Norman Cohen ranks 861 out of 1,097. Before him are John Torrey, William John Swainson, C. B. van Niel, Johannes Schmidt, Axel Gudbrand Blytt, and Liberty Hyde Bailey. After him are Ken Alibek, Thomas Bell, George Montagu, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Grigore Antipa, and Thomas Campbell Eyton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Stanley Norman Cohen ranks 410. Before him are Arnaldo Pambianco, Story Musgrave, Aki Schmidt, Soumitra Chatterjee, Yola Ramírez, and Jacques Poos. After him are Jimmy Armfield, Isabelle Collin Dufresne, A. J. Foyt, Jiří Čadek, Tenley Albright, and Billy Whelan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stanley Norman Cohen ranks 8,164 out of 20,380. Before him are Amy Acker (1976), Mac Wilkins (1950), John P. Kennedy (1795), William Wilson Morgan (1906), Sean Flynn (1941), and Otis Spann (1924). After him are Samuel Eliot Morison (1887), Mac Miller (1992), Blind Willie McTell (1898), Christopher George (1931), Amy Tan (1952), and Robert Wrenn (1873).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Stanley Norman Cohen ranks 119. Before him are John Jacob Abel (1857), Judah Folkman (1933), Mary Katharine Brandegee (1844), Robert Ridgway (1850), John Torrey (1796), and Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858). After him are Charles Horton Peck (1833), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Sam Harris (1967), Benjamin Smith Barton (1766), Theobald Smith (1859), and Robert Weinberg (1942).

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