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Robert W. Holley

1922 - 1993

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Robert William Holley (January 28, 1922 – February 11, 1993) was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 (with Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall Warren Nirenberg) for describing the structure of alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis. Holley was born in Urbana, Illinois, and graduated from Urbana High School in 1938. He went on to study chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1942 and commencing his PhD studies in organic chemistry at Cornell University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert W. Holley is the 155th most popular chemist (up from 179th in 2019), the 776th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,114th in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Robert W. Holley ranks 155 out of 602. Before him are Sune Bergström, Casimir Funk, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Hermann Kolbe, Harry Kroto, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth. After him are Paul D. Boyer, Feodor Lynen, Antoni Grabowski, Katalin Karikó, Ei-ichi Negishi, and Georg Wittig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Robert W. Holley ranks 30. Before him are Christiaan Barnard, Imre Lakatos, Alain Resnais, Doris Day, Agostinho Neto, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. After him are Joan Fuster, Iannis Xenakis, Telly Savalas, Clair Cameron Patterson, Vittorio Gassman, and Jason Robards. Among people deceased in 1993, Robert W. Holley ranks 18. Before him are Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Polykarp Kusch, Inge Lehmann, Anthony Burgess, and André the Giant. After him are Bobby Moore, Wolfgang Paul, Brandon Lee, Kōbō Abe, Hans Jonas, and Albert Sabin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert W. Holley ranks 776 out of 20,380. Before him are Christopher Lambert (1957), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Joanne Woodward (1930), Roy Sullivan (1912), Henry Molaison (1926), and Florence Griffith Joyner (1959). After him are Carrie Fisher (1956), Barbara Liskov (1939), Michael DeBakey (1908), Albert Ellis (1913), Kateri Tekakwitha (1656), and Rod Steiger (1925).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Robert W. Holley ranks 35. Before him are Robert Burns Woodward (1917), Paul Flory (1910), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Jerome Karle (1918), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), and Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927). After him are Paul D. Boyer (1918), Willard Libby (1908), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Richard F. Heck (1931), William Standish Knowles (1917), and Alan J. Heeger (1936).

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