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Jack W. Szostak

1952 - Today

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Jack William Szostak (born November 9, 1952) is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, university professor at the University of Chicago, former professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Szostak has made significant contributions to the field of genetics. His achievement helped scientists to map the location of genes in mammals and to develop techniques for manipulating genes. His research findings in this area are also instrumental to the Human Genome Project. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jack W. Szostak is the 273rd most popular biologist (up from 275th in 2019), the 1,506th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,543rd in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Biologist. Learn more about Jack W. Szostak's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jack W. Szostak ranks 273 out of 1,097. Before him are Alexander von Middendorff, Carl Gustav Carus, Desmond Morris, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Francisco Varela, and C. L. Gloger. After him are Carl Ludwig Blume, Leopold Fitzinger, Morten Thrane Brünnich, Sergei Winogradsky, James Rothman, and Eduard Rüppell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Jack W. Szostak ranks 116. Before him are Abbas al-Musawi, Michael McDonald, Eric Adams, Joe Strummer, Joel Silver, and Graham Greene. After him are Roger Y. Tsien, Ryū Murakami, Michael Cunningham, Krystyna Janda, Vanderlei Luxemburgo, and Michael Jeter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack W. Szostak ranks 1,506 out of 8,785. Before him are Dave Finlay (1958), Norman Lockyer (1836), William Russell (1924), Sam Taylor-Johnson (1967), John Horton Conway (1937), and John Blow (1649). After him are Godwin, Earl of Wessex (1001), Helen McCrory (1968), Maurice Wilkes (1913), John Wilkins (1614), Arnold Jackson (1891), and Gildas (500).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Jack W. Szostak ranks 47. Before him are John Lindley (1799), William Aiton (1731), Charles Bell (1774), Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), David Goodall (1914), and Desmond Morris (1928). After him are John Gould (1804), George Bentham (1800), Edward Turner Bennett (1797), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), John Gurdon (1933), and Ian Wilmut (1944).

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