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Martin Chalfie

1947 - Today

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Martin Lee Chalfie (born January 15, 1947) is an American scientist. He is University Professor at Columbia University. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". He holds a PhD in neurobiology from Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Chalfie is the 156th most popular biologist (up from 247th in 2019), the 1,359th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,324th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Martin Chalfie ranks 156 out of 1,097. Before him are Félix d'Herelle, Howard Martin Temin, Joshua Lederberg, Bernard Katz, Thomas Huckle Weller, and Bernard Germain de Lacépède. After him are Jakob von Uexküll, Susumu Tonegawa, Nettie Stevens, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Salvador Luria, and George Davis Snell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Martin Chalfie ranks 76. Before him are Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Richard Dreyfuss, Sofia Rotaru, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Yukio Hatoyama, and Carles Rexach. After him are Ronnie Wood, Carla Del Ponte, Gidon Kremer, Meat Loaf, Robert Englund, and Óscar Tabárez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Chalfie ranks 1,359 out of 20,380. Before him are Marvin Minsky (1927), Harry Dean Stanton (1926), Eric Peterson (1964), Kendrick Lamar (1987), Raymond Carver (1938), and Jane Wyman (1917). After him are James Horner (1953), Mildred Harris (1901), Hattie McDaniel (1893), Rodney King (1965), Stephen Curry (1988), and Michael Flynn (1958).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Martin Chalfie ranks 30. Before him are Edward B. Lewis (1918), Daniel Nathans (1928), E. O. Wilson (1929), Howard Martin Temin (1934), Joshua Lederberg (1925), and Thomas Huckle Weller (1915). After him are Nettie Stevens (1861), George Davis Snell (1903), Leland H. Hartwell (1939), Norman Borlaug (1914), Carl Woese (1928), and Paul Greengard (1925).

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