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235 answers are accepted for “Name a Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine”. Georg Nagel is the rarest Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in this ranking, with 1,002 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Peter Hegemann is the second-rarest with 1,779 monthly Wikipedia views, 1.78× the figure for Georg Nagel. James Watson is the most common Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in this ranking, with 690,307 monthly Wikipedia views, 688.9× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 235 answers: 5,877,190. Georg Nagel is under 0.1% of that total. 47 answers are Epic or Legendary: Georg Nagel (Legendary), Peter Hegemann (Legendary), Rodney Porter (Legendary), and 44 more.
Quick answer Rarest
Georg Nagel
Legendary
1,002 monthly Wikipedia views
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Rarity 1.000
Most common
James Watson
Common
690,307 monthly Wikipedia views
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Rarity 0.000
Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).
Ranked answers 235 answers to “Name a Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this
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Rank Answer Tier Rarity Monthly Wikipedia views 1 Georg Nagel on Wikipedia Legendary 1.000 1,002 2 Peter Hegemann on Wikipedia Legendary 0.996 1,779 3 Rodney Porter on Wikipedia Legendary 0.991 1,855 4 Bengt I. Samuelsson on Wikipedia Legendary 0.987 2,211 5 Haldan Keffer Hartline on Wikipedia Legendary 0.983 2,522 6 Feodor Lynen on Wikipedia Legendary 0.979 2,547 7 Dickinson W. Richards on Wikipedia Legendary 0.974 2,667 8 Corneille Heymans on Wikipedia Legendary 0.970 2,715 9 André Frédéric Cournand on Wikipedia Legendary 0.966 2,738 10 Henrik Dam on Wikipedia Legendary 0.962 3,177 11 Hugo Theorell on Wikipedia Legendary 0.957 3,240 12 Edward Adelbert Doisy on Wikipedia Legendary 0.953 3,284 13 Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. on Wikipedia Legendary 0.949 3,320 14 William P. Murphy on Wikipedia Legendary 0.944 3,420 15 Jean Dausset on Wikipedia Legendary 0.940 3,524 16 Herbert Spencer Gasser on Wikipedia Legendary 0.936 3,604 17 George Davis Snell on Wikipedia Legendary 0.932 3,681 18 Niels Kaj Jerne on Wikipedia Epic 0.927 3,703 19 Allvar Gullstrand on Wikipedia Epic 0.923 3,808 20 Bert Sakmann on Wikipedia Epic 0.919 3,890 21 Thomas Huckle Weller on Wikipedia Epic 0.915 3,904 22 Edward Calvin Kendall on Wikipedia Epic 0.910 3,949 23 Konrad Emil Bloch on Wikipedia Epic 0.906 4,135 24 Ragnar Granit on Wikipedia Epic 0.902 4,170 25 Frederick Chapman Robbins on Wikipedia Epic 0.897 4,236 26 Michael Houghton on Wikipedia Epic 0.893 4,348 27 Fritz Albert Lipmann on Wikipedia Epic 0.889 4,379 28 Rolf M. Zinkernagel on Wikipedia Epic 0.885 4,457 29 Robert W. Holley on Wikipedia Epic 0.880 4,485 30 Edward B. Lewis on Wikipedia Epic 0.876 4,499 31 Edmond H. Fischer on Wikipedia Epic 0.872 4,529 32 Philip Showalter Hench on Wikipedia Epic 0.868 4,590 33 André Michel Lwoff on Wikipedia Epic 0.863 4,668 34 George H. Hitchings on Wikipedia Epic 0.859 4,675 35 Roger Guillemin on Wikipedia Epic 0.855 4,695 36 Leland H. Hartwell on Wikipedia Epic 0.850 4,702 37 Eric F. Wieschaus on Wikipedia Epic 0.846 4,714 38 George Minot on Wikipedia Epic 0.842 4,762 39 Otto Fritz Meyerhof on Wikipedia Epic 0.838 4,763 40 John Vane on Wikipedia Epic 0.833 4,897 41 Ulf von Euler on Wikipedia Epic 0.829 4,914 42 Edwin G. Krebs on Wikipedia Epic 0.825 4,954 43 Charles Brenton Huggins on Wikipedia Epic 0.821 5,022 44 Albert Claude on Wikipedia Epic 0.816 5,099 45 Jules Bordet on Wikipedia Epic 0.812 5,108 46 Erwin Neher on Wikipedia Epic 0.808 5,183 47 Robert F. Furchgott on Wikipedia Epic 0.803 5,241 48 Oliver Smithies on Wikipedia Rare 0.799 5,242 49 Tadeusz Reichstein on Wikipedia Rare 0.795 5,382 50 Robert Bárány on Wikipedia Rare 0.791 5,468 51 Sune Bergström on Wikipedia Rare 0.786 5,529 52 Johannes Fibiger on Wikipedia Rare 0.782 5,564 53 Francis Peyton Rous on Wikipedia Rare 0.778 5,673 54 Georges J. F. Köhler on Wikipedia Rare 0.774 5,871 55 Georg von Békésy on Wikipedia Rare 0.769 5,893 56 John Sulston on Wikipedia Rare 0.765 6,016 57 Alfred G. Gilman on Wikipedia Rare 0.761 6,062 58 Daniel Bovet on Wikipedia Rare 0.756 6,160 59 Daniel Nathans on Wikipedia Rare 0.752 6,161 60 Andrew Schally on Wikipedia Rare 0.748 6,228 61 Jules A. Hoffmann on Wikipedia Rare 0.744 6,240 62 Howard Martin Temin on Wikipedia Rare 0.739 6,353 63 Michael W. Young on Wikipedia Rare 0.735 6,408 64 Werner Arber on Wikipedia Rare 0.731 6,507 65 Christiaan Eijkman on Wikipedia Rare 0.726 6,517 66 Charles Nicolle on Wikipedia Rare 0.722 6,610 67 E. Donnall Thomas on Wikipedia Rare 0.718 6,646 68 Michael Stuart Brown on Wikipedia Rare 0.714 6,669 69 Jeffrey C. Hall on Wikipedia Rare 0.709 6,805 70 Edgar Adrian on Wikipedia Rare 0.705 6,844 71 Günter Blobel on Wikipedia Rare 0.701 6,847 72 Henry Hallett Dale on Wikipedia Rare 0.697 6,945 73 Hamilton O. Smith on Wikipedia Rare 0.692 7,049 74 Albrecht Kossel on Wikipedia Rare 0.688 7,117 75 Paul Hermann Müller on Wikipedia Rare 0.684 7,130 76 Joseph L. Goldstein on Wikipedia Rare 0.679 7,131 77 Bernard Katz on Wikipedia Rare 0.675 7,143 78 Joseph Erlanger on Wikipedia Rare 0.671 7,191 79 Michael Rosbash on Wikipedia Rare 0.667 7,301 80 Martin Evans on Wikipedia Rare 0.662 7,322 81 George Wald on Wikipedia Rare 0.658 7,333 82 Arvid Carlsson on Wikipedia Rare 0.654 7,351 83 Bruce Beutler on Wikipedia Rare 0.650 7,387 84 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran on Wikipedia Rare 0.645 7,428 85 Bernardo Houssay on Wikipedia Rare 0.641 7,502 86 Alfred Hershey on Wikipedia Rare 0.635 7,601 87 Harvey J. Alter on Wikipedia Rare 0.635 7,601 88 Andrew Fire on Wikipedia Rare 0.628 7,862 89 Marshall Warren Nirenberg on Wikipedia Rare 0.624 8,026 90 Hans Spemann on Wikipedia Rare 0.620 8,109 91 Edward Tatum on Wikipedia Rare 0.615 8,254 92 Stanley Cohen on Wikipedia Rare 0.611 8,388 93 Macfarlane Burnet on Wikipedia Rare 0.607 8,427 94 David H. Hubel on Wikipedia Rare 0.603 8,665 95 George Beadle on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.598 8,764 96 James Rothman on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.594 8,768 97 Emil Theodor Kocher on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.590 8,791 98 Alan Hodgkin on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.585 8,818 99 Paul Greengard on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.581 8,867 100 Peter Doherty on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.577 8,955 101 Gregg L. Semenza on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.573 8,994 102 William Kaelin Jr. on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.568 9,355 103 John Franklin Enders on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.564 9,453 104 Craig Mello on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.560 9,477 105 H. Robert Horvitz on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.556 9,504 106 Max Theiler on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.551 9,619 107 Renato Dulbecco on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.547 9,854 108 Christian de Duve on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.543 9,957 109 Harald zur Hausen on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.538 9,973 110 Otto Loewi on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.534 10,017 111 Julius Axelrod on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.530 10,023 112 Carl Ferdinand Cori on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.526 10,084 113 Martin Rodbell on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.521 10,265 114 Ralph M. Steinman on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.517 10,506 115 Archibald Hill on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.513 10,556 116 August Krogh on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.509 10,711 117 François Jacob on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.504 10,723 118 Walter Rudolf Hess on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.500 10,791 119 Charles M. Rice on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.496 10,804 120 Charles Richet on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.491 10,857 121 Robin Warren on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.487 10,939 122 Linda B. Buck on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.483 11,033 123 James Black on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.479 11,335 124 Peter J. Ratcliffe on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.474 11,427 125 César Milstein on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.470 11,884 126 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.466 12,158 127 Richard J. Roberts on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.462 12,222 128 David Julius on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.457 12,395 129 Edvard Moser on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.453 12,480 130 Frederick Gowland Hopkins on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.449 12,671 131 Baruj Benacerraf on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.444 12,998 132 Baruch Samuel Blumberg on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.440 13,035 133 Joseph E. Murray on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.436 13,109 134 Allan MacLeod Cormack on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.432 13,327 135 Satoshi Ōmura on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.427 13,356 136 Arthur Kornberg on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.423 13,369 137 Julius Wagner-Jauregg on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.419 13,593 138 George Whipple on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.415 13,701 139 Thomas C. Südhof on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.410 13,786 140 Harold E. Varmus on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.406 14,055 141 Charles Scott Sherrington on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.402 14,295 142 George Emil Palade on Wikipedia Familiar 0.397 14,395 143 Roger Wolcott Sperry on Wikipedia Familiar 0.393 14,398 144 Louis Ignarro on Wikipedia Familiar 0.389 14,532 145 Gerald Edelman on Wikipedia Familiar 0.385 14,656 146 Gary Ruvkun on Wikipedia Familiar 0.380 14,714 147 Gerhard Domagk on Wikipedia Familiar 0.376 14,725 148 John O'Keefe on Wikipedia Familiar 0.372 14,898 149 John Eccles on Wikipedia Familiar 0.368 15,062 150 Torsten Wiesel on Wikipedia Familiar 0.363 15,197 151 Randy Schekman on Wikipedia Familiar 0.359 15,271 152 May-Britt Moser on Wikipedia Familiar 0.355 15,700 153 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi on Wikipedia Familiar 0.350 15,722 154 Phillip Allen Sharp on Wikipedia Familiar 0.346 16,159 155 Paul Lauterbur on Wikipedia Familiar 0.342 16,177 156 Peter Mansfield on Wikipedia Familiar 0.338 16,405 157 Stanley B. Prusiner on Wikipedia Familiar 0.333 16,421 158 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow on Wikipedia Familiar 0.329 16,644 159 Willem Einthoven on Wikipedia Familiar 0.325 16,655 160 Selman Waksman on Wikipedia Familiar 0.321 16,739 161 Max Delbrück on Wikipedia Familiar 0.316 17,154 162 Jacques Monod on Wikipedia Familiar 0.312 17,328 163 John Macleod on Wikipedia Familiar 0.308 17,361 164 Joshua Lederberg on Wikipedia Familiar 0.303 17,590 165 Severo Ochoa on Wikipedia Familiar 0.299 17,788 166 Ferid Murad on Wikipedia Familiar 0.295 17,825 167 Karl von Frisch on Wikipedia Familiar 0.291 17,991 168 Karl Deisseroth on Wikipedia Familiar 0.286 18,970 169 Godfrey Hounsfield on Wikipedia Familiar 0.282 19,041 170 William C. Campbell on Wikipedia Familiar 0.278 19,074 171 Tim Hunt on Wikipedia Familiar 0.274 19,573 172 Carol W. Greider on Wikipedia Familiar 0.269 19,937 173 Werner Forssmann on Wikipedia Familiar 0.265 19,949 174 Jack W. Szostak on Wikipedia Familiar 0.261 19,957 175 Ernst Chain on Wikipedia Familiar 0.256 20,332 176 Salvador Luria on Wikipedia Familiar 0.252 20,956 177 Hermann Joseph Muller on Wikipedia Familiar 0.248 22,537 178 Andrew Huxley on Wikipedia Familiar 0.244 22,702 179 Susumu Tonegawa on Wikipedia Familiar 0.239 22,823 180 John Gurdon on Wikipedia Familiar 0.235 22,929 181 Mario Capecchi on Wikipedia Familiar 0.231 23,862 182 Hans Krebs on Wikipedia Familiar 0.226 24,162 183 Ardem Patapoutian on Wikipedia Familiar 0.222 24,183 184 Camillo Golgi on Wikipedia Familiar 0.218 24,723 185 Nikolaas Tinbergen on Wikipedia Familiar 0.214 24,993 186 Niels Ryberg Finsen on Wikipedia Familiar 0.209 25,159 187 Emil von Behring on Wikipedia Familiar 0.205 25,491 188 Victor Ambros on Wikipedia Familiar 0.201 26,748 189 Sydney Brenner on Wikipedia Common 0.197 27,057 190 Gerty Cori on Wikipedia Common 0.192 27,250 191 James P. Allison on Wikipedia Common 0.188 28,787 192 Albert Szent-Györgyi on Wikipedia Common 0.184 30,170 193 Élie Metchnikoff on Wikipedia Common 0.179 31,145 194 J. Michael Bishop on Wikipedia Common 0.175 31,146 195 Elizabeth Blackburn on Wikipedia Common 0.171 31,464 196 Svante Pääbo on Wikipedia Common 0.167 36,355 197 Thomas Hunt Morgan on Wikipedia Common 0.162 36,758 198 Ronald Ross on Wikipedia Common 0.158 37,778 199 Fred Ramsdell on Wikipedia Common 0.154 37,828 200 Tasuku Honjo on Wikipedia Common 0.150 39,210 201 Alexis Carrel on Wikipedia Common 0.145 39,495 202 Karl Landsteiner on Wikipedia Common 0.141 40,629 203 Eric Kandel on Wikipedia Common 0.137 40,817 204 Luc Montagnier on Wikipedia Common 0.132 41,948 205 Howard Florey on Wikipedia Common 0.128 42,133 206 Peter Medawar on Wikipedia Common 0.124 42,242 207 David Baltimore on Wikipedia Common 0.120 42,287 208 Robert Edwards on Wikipedia Common 0.115 42,528 209 Shimon Sakaguchi on Wikipedia Common 0.111 42,651 210 Richard Axel on Wikipedia Common 0.107 43,014 211 Drew Weissman on Wikipedia Common 0.103 44,110 212 Rita Levi-Montalcini on Wikipedia Common 0.098 45,412 213 Gertrude B. Elion on Wikipedia Common 0.094 46,009 214 Shinya Yamanaka on Wikipedia Common 0.090 48,926 215 Paul Nurse on Wikipedia Common 0.085 55,672 216 Konrad Lorenz on Wikipedia Common 0.081 57,908 217 Barry Marshall on Wikipedia Common 0.077 59,757 218 Santiago Ramón y Cajal on Wikipedia Common 0.073 60,862 219 Mary E. Brunkow on Wikipedia Common 0.068 62,651 220 Barbara McClintock on Wikipedia Common 0.064 63,291 221 Maurice Wilkins on Wikipedia Common 0.060 65,943 222 Har Gobind Khorana on Wikipedia Common 0.056 68,018 223 António Egas Moniz on Wikipedia Common 0.051 69,045 224 Otto Heinrich Warburg on Wikipedia Common 0.047 82,050 225 Paul Ehrlich on Wikipedia Common 0.043 84,048 226 Frederick Banting on Wikipedia Common 0.038 111,367 227 Katalin Karikó on Wikipedia Common 0.034 111,497 228 Daniel Carleton Gajdusek on Wikipedia Common 0.030 128,709 229 Tu Youyou on Wikipedia Common 0.026 134,147 230 Robert Koch on Wikipedia Common 0.021 136,367 231 Yoshinori Ohsumi on Wikipedia Common 0.017 145,217 232 Ivan Pavlov on Wikipedia Common 0.013 180,049 233 Francis Crick on Wikipedia Common 0.009 257,191 234 Alexander Fleming on Wikipedia Common 0.004 342,960 235 James Watson on Wikipedia Common 0.000 690,307
FAQ What is the rarest Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine? Georg Nagel is the rarest Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in this ranking, with 1,002 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).
How many Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicines are there? There are 235 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicines in this ranking, from Georg Nagel (rarest) to James Watson (most common).
What is the most common Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine? James Watson is the most common Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in this ranking, with 690,307 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).
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Sources Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.