BIOLOGIST

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 297,653 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Tomas Lindahl is the 137th most popular biologist (down from 77th in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 103rd in 2019) and the 5th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Tomas Lindahls by language

Over the past year Tomas Lindahl has had the most page views in the with 19,129 views, followed by Turkish (3,578), and German (2,947). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (235.14%), Serbian (115.92%), and Sicilian (78.44%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Tomas Lindahl ranks 137 out of 1,097. Before him are Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Giovanni Sartori, Elias Magnus Fries, E. O. Wilson, Bert Sakmann, and Gerald Edelman. After him are John Ray, Carl Peter Thunberg, Hamilton O. Smith, Mario Capecchi, William Carey, and J. Michael Bishop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Tomas Lindahl ranks 70. Before him are Jerry West, Jerzy Skolimowski, Leiji Matsumoto, Wim Kok, Mamadou Tandja, and Carlos Bilardo. After him are Ivan Sutherland, Derek Jacobi, Enrico Macias, Anthony James Leggett, Ian Stewart, and Ben E. King.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Tomas Lindahl ranks 156 out of 1,879. Before him are Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Halsten Stenkilsson (1050), Franz Berwald (1796), Inger Nilsson (1959), Emund the Old (1030), and Ulf Kristersson (1963). After him are Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846), Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Oscar Montelius (1843), Gustaf de Laval (1845), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), and Ellen Key (1849).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Tomas Lindahl ranks 5. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Hugo Theorell (1903), Svante Pääbo (1955), and Elias Magnus Fries (1794). After him are Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Erik Acharius (1757), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Adam Afzelius (1750), and Anders Sparrman (1748).

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