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Margaret Oakley Dayhoff

1925 - 1983

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Margaret Belle (Oakley) Dayhoff (March 11, 1925 – February 5, 1983) was an American Biophysicist and a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics. Dayhoff was a professor at Georgetown University Medical Center and a noted research biochemist at the National Biomedical Research Foundation, where she pioneered the application of mathematics and computational methods to the field of biochemistry. She dedicated her career to applying the evolving computational technologies to support advances in biology and medicine, most notably the creation of protein and nucleic acid databases and tools to interrogate the databases. She originated one of the first substitution matrices, point accepted mutations (PAM). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff is the 531st most popular chemist (up from 592nd in 2019), the 8,037th most popular biography from United States (up from 13,622nd in 2019) and the 94th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 531 out of 602. Before her are Michael Behe, Darleane C. Hoffman, Eugen Baumann, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Robert Jarvik, and Marc Delafontaine. After her are Nikolai Menshutkin, Ida Freund, Friedrich Accum, Aleksandr Arbuzov, Neil Bartlett, and Mary L. Good.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 395. Before her are Rosemary Murphy, Miiko Taka, Carla Del Poggio, Andrei Eshpai, Álvaro Magaña, and Charles Haughey. After her are Pasieguito, Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, Janet Rowley, Burkhard Heim, Vera Vasilyeva, and Steve Forrest. Among people deceased in 1983, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 208. Before her are Boris Hagelin, John Bodkin Adams, Franco Giorgetti, Gyula Lázár, Bronisław Kaper, and James Jamerson. After her are Giuliano Nostini, Semyon Ignatyev, Lutz Eigendorf, Buster Crabbe, José Bergamín, and Amadeo Ortega.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 8,039 out of 20,380. Before her are Xzibit (1974), Rory Calhoun (1922), Alan Dean Foster (1946), James Coco (1930), Rashida Jones (1976), and Zalman King (1941). After her are Joe Crowley (1962), Mary Martin (1913), Loni Anderson (1945), Bart D. Ehrman (1955), Roger Maris (1934), and Charlie Logg (1931).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff ranks 94. Before her are Karen Wetterhahn (1948), Helen Murray Free (1923), Bruce Ames (1928), Michael Behe (1952), Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), and Robert Jarvik (1946). After her are Mary L. Good (1931), Bruce Alberts (1938), Emma P. Carr (1880), Florence B. Seibert (1897), Edith M. Flanigen (1929), and Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856).

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