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Tomas Lindahl

1938 - Today

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Tomas Robert Lindahl FRS FMedSci (born 28 January 1938) is a Swedish-British scientist specialising in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomas Lindahl has received more than 298,681 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Tomas Lindahl is the 77th most popular biologist (up from 90th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 132nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Biologist.

Tomas Lindahl is most famous for his work in the field of DNA repair. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 for his work in DNA repair.

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  • 62.96

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  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Tomas Lindahl ranks 77 out of 841Before him are Irwin Rose, Jules A. Hoffmann, Roger Guillemin, Dmitri Ivanovsky, Daniel Bovet, and Philip Miller. After him are Julian Huxley, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Jan Swammerdam, and Gabriele Falloppio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Tomas Lindahl ranks 53Before him are Viktor Chernomyrdin, Jiří Menzel, Raymond Carver, Brian Dennehy, Ian Stewart, and Lynn Margulis. After him are César Luis Menotti, István Szabó, Manuel Santana, Elliott Gould, Ayaz Mutallibov, and Kurt Wüthrich.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Tomas Lindahl ranks 104 out of 1,612Before him are Olaus Magnus (1490), Princess Birgitta of Sweden (1937), Bertil Ohlin (1899), Arvid Carlsson (1923), Peter Stormare (1953), and Roy Andersson (1943). After him are Lennart Torstensson (1603), Sverker I of Sweden (1100), Stefan Löfven (1957), Ingemar Stenmark (1956), Carin Göring (1888), and Kai Siegbahn (1918).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Tomas Lindahl ranks 3Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707) and Hugo Theorell (1903). After him are Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Adam Afzelius (1750), Erik Acharius (1757), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Anders Sparrman (1748), and Göran Wahlenberg (1780).