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Jill Bolte Taylor

1959 - Today

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Jill Bolte Taylor (; born May 4, 1959) is an American neuroanatomist, author, and public speaker. Taylor began to study severe mental illnesses because of her brother's psychosis. In the early 1990s, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she was involved in mapping the brain to determine how cells communicate with each other. On December 10, 1996, Taylor had a massive stroke. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jill Bolte Taylor is the 1,082nd most popular biologist (down from 1,080th in 2024), the 14,879th most popular biography from United States (down from 14,802nd in 2019) and the 186th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jill Bolte Taylor ranks 1,082 out of 1,097. Before her are Jerry Coyne, Joan A. Steitz, Gita Ramjee, Peter Dodson, Xu Xing, and Huda Zoghbi. After her are George Don, Ben Barres, Neil Shubin, Suzanne Simard, Christian Drosten, and Cristina Garmendia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Jill Bolte Taylor ranks 697. Before her are Masayuki Yanai, Göran Hägglund, Paul Gross, Mark Aguirre, Władysław Pasikowski, and Andrew Hoy. After her are Mai Masri, Debrah Farentino, Pirkko Määttä, Marc Shaiman, Eric Fellner, and Ed Greenwood.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jill Bolte Taylor ranks 14,884 out of 20,380. Before her are Kenneth D. Cameron (1949), Carl Edwards (1979), Pop Smoke (1999), Steven Strait (1986), Herb Kohl (1935), and Sherman Howard (1949). After her are Jean Carnahan (1933), Donna de Varona (1947), John Rzeznik (1965), George Newbern (1964), Ella Mae Morse (1924), and James DeMonaco (1969).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Jill Bolte Taylor ranks 186. Before her are Eugenie Clark (1922), Fanny Hesse (1850), Susan Lindquist (1949), Jerry Coyne (1949), Joan A. Steitz (1941), and Peter Dodson (1946). After her are Ben Barres (1954), Neil Shubin (1960), PZ Myers (1957), Gretchen Daily (1964), Maria Van Kerkhove (1977), and Sean B. Carroll (1960).

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