BIOLOGIST

Phillip Allen Sharp

1944 - Today

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Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence". He was awarded the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal. Sharp's current research focuses on small RNAs and other types of non-coding RNAs. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Phillip Allen Sharp is the 339th most popular biologist (down from 323rd in 2019), the 2,999th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,015th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Phillip Allen Sharp ranks 339 out of 1,097. Before him are Jérôme Lejeune, Edward Blyth, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Otto Friedrich Müller, Brian Kobilka, and Valerius Cordus. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, George Robert Waterhouse, Josif Pančić, Nehemiah Grew, Wilhelm Peters, and Christen C. Raunkiær.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Phillip Allen Sharp ranks 218. Before him are Bernard Tschumi, Rocky Johnson, Péter Eötvös, Steve Fossett, Patrick Sercu, and Mordechai Spiegler. After him are Terry Cooper, Sergei Belov, Jerry Springer, Dennis Wilson, Marie-France Pisier, and Kay Parker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Phillip Allen Sharp ranks 2,999 out of 20,380. Before him are Leon Ames (1902), Lew Wallace (1827), Thomas F. Wilson (1959), Christa McAuliffe (1948), Anne Heche (1969), and Michelle Trachtenberg (1985). After him are Henry Calvin (1918), Thomas E. Kurtz (1928), Matt LeBlanc (1967), Jonathan Haidt (1963), Tracy Morgan (1968), and Edwin Hall (1855).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Phillip Allen Sharp ranks 61. Before him are Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), Andrew Fire (1959), David Baltimore (1938), Carol W. Greider (1961), Charles M. Rice (1952), and Brian Kobilka (1955). After him are David Julius (1955), Craig Mello (1960), Craig Venter (1946), Theodore Gill (1837), Henrietta Lacks (1920), and Joel Asaph Allen (1838).

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