BIOLOGIST

Patricia Goldman-Rakic

1937 - 2003

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Patricia Goldman-Rakic ( rə-KEESH; née Shoer, April 22, 1937 – July 31, 2003) was an American professor of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and psychology at Yale University School of Medicine. She pioneered multidisciplinary research of the prefrontal cortex and working memory. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Patricia Goldman-Rakic is the 1,053rd most popular biologist, the 12,501st most popular biography from United States (up from 13,229th in 2019) and the 171st most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Patricia Goldman-Rakic ranks 1,053 out of 1,097. Before her are William Forsell Kirby, Paul Sereno, Henry Weed Fowler, Philip J. Currie, Christof Koch, and Carrie Derick. After her are Francis Maitland Balfour, Angelika Amon, Edward Donovan, Roger Revelle, Jessica Meir, and Amos Eaton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Patricia Goldman-Rakic ranks 537. Before her are Dee Palmer, Oleg Kopayev, Tom Paxton, Ollan Cassell, Tony Waiters, and Peter Ueberroth. After her are Edna Adan Ismail, Benjamin Whitrow, Nelson Kuhn, Donnelly Rhodes, Viktor Yakushev, and Manuel Astorga. Among people deceased in 2003, Patricia Goldman-Rakic ranks 352. Before her are Steve O'Rourke, Yuri Falin, Malik Meraj Khalid, Marie Maynard Daly, Koji Kondo, and Andrey Kivilev. After her are Trevor Ford, Erland Herkenrath, Gerald Emmett Carter, Dulce Chacón, Al Hirschfeld, and Royce D. Applegate.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Patricia Goldman-Rakic ranks 12,505 out of 20,380. Before her are Scott Kelly (1964), Gino Pariani (1928), Reb Beach (1963), Frank Ramsey (1931), Jessica Hecht (1965), and Alfred Lunt (1892). After her are Ken Flach (1963), Donna D'Errico (1968), Faith Evans (1973), Mal Whitfield (1924), Miller Anderson (1922), and Fontella Bass (1940).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Patricia Goldman-Rakic ranks 171. Before her are Timothy Ray Brown (1966), Margaret Morse Nice (1883), Ronald M. Evans (1949), Paul Sereno (1957), Henry Weed Fowler (1878), and Christof Koch (1956). After her are Roger Revelle (1909), Jessica Meir (1977), Amos Eaton (1776), William Bartram (1739), Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913), and Irene Pepperberg (1949).

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