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Paul L. Modrich

1946 - Today

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Paul Lawrence Modrich (born June 13, 1946) is an American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is known for his research on DNA mismatch repair. Modrich received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015, jointly with Aziz Sancar and Tomas Lindahl. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul L. Modrich is the 197th most popular chemist (down from 194th in 2019), the 1,036th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,208th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Chemist.

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Among chemists, Paul L. Modrich ranks 197 out of 602. Before him are Richard R. Schrock, Aaron Klug, Julius Axelrod, Johann Deisenhofer, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, and Henry Taube. After him are Clara Immerwahr, Arthur Kornberg, Herbert C. Brown, Wallace Carothers, Donald J. Cram, and Jean-Baptiste Dumas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Paul L. Modrich ranks 82. Before him are John Woo, Talia Shire, Michele Placido, Colin Bell, Dragan Džajić, and Bob Beamon. After him are Rade Šerbedžija, Berti Vogts, Marilyn vos Savant, Uri Geller, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, and Peter Singer.

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Among people born in United States, Paul L. Modrich ranks 1,036 out of 20,380. Before him are Ernest King (1878), Linda Hamilton (1956), Bradley Cooper (1975), Melanie Griffith (1957), Bob Beamon (1946), and Cuba Gooding Jr. (1968). After him are Samuel Barber (1910), Bing Crosby (1903), John Sherman (1823), Mark Hamill (1951), Neal Cassady (1926), and Anne Baxter (1923).

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