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John Sulston

1942 - 2018

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Sir John Edward Sulston (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He was a leader in human genome research and Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. Sulston was in favour of science in the public interest, such as free public access of scientific information and against the patenting of genes and the privatisation of genetic technologies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Sulston is the 28th most popular biologist (up from 318th in 2019), the 300th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,765th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Sulston ranks 28 out of 1,097. Before him are Jules Bordet, Edward Tatum, Yoshinori Ohsumi, John Boyd Orr, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, and Thomas Henry Huxley. After him are Richard Dawkins, Luc Montagnier, Maria Sibylla Merian, Albrecht Kossel, Conrad Gessner, and Francis Crick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, John Sulston ranks 24. Before him are Peter Handke, Isabel Allende, Neilia Hunter Biden, Scatman John, Brian Wilson, and Ronnie James Dio. After him are Leo Beenhakker, Michael York, Frank Williams, Bill Nelson, Mohamed ElBaradei, and Brian Jones. Among people deceased in 2018, John Sulston ranks 16. Before him are Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Bernardo Bertolucci, Stan Lee, Miloš Forman, Joe Jackson, and John Young. After him are Peter Grünberg, Amos Oz, Isao Takahata, Riccardo Giacconi, John McCain, and Stephen Hillenburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Sulston ranks 300 out of 8,785. Before him are Francis William Aston (1877), George Best (1946), Alfred Marshall (1842), Saint Ursula (400), Norman Haworth (1883), and Edward Smith (1850). After him are John Logie Baird (1888), Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (1936), John Law (1671), Peter Higgs (1929), Harold Godwinson (1022), and Henry IV of England (1367).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Sulston ranks 9. Before him are Rosalind Franklin (1920), Robert Edwards (1925), Robert Brown (1773), Alfred Russel Wallace (1823), John Boyd Orr (1880), and Thomas Henry Huxley (1825). After him are Francis Crick (1916), John Edward Gray (1800), Christian de Duve (1917), Richard Henderson (1945), Gregory Winter (1951), and George Shaw (1751).

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