Biologist

Hamilton O. Smith

American microbiologist

1931 - 2025

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His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2024). Hamilton O. Smith is the 128th most popular biologist (up from 140th in 2024), the 1,114th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,265th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Biologist.

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Among Biologists

Among biologists, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 128 out of 1,097. Before him are John Hopfield, Erasmus Darwin, Carl Nägeli, Hans Christian Gram, Robert Whittaker, and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. After him are Reginald Innes Pocock, Sydney Brenner, John Franklin Enders, Jan Swammerdam, William Jackson Hooker, and Lynn Margulis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 55. Before him are John le Carré, Nawal El Saadawi, Kakuichi Mimura, William Shatner, Viktor Korchnoi, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. After him are Michael Lonsdale, Caterina Valente, Takashi Takabayashi, Jim Jones, Richard Rorty, and Hiroto Muraoka. Among people deceased in 2025, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 45. Before him are Richard Williamson, Dražen Dalipagić, Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Hulk Hogan, Ivar Giaever, and John Searle. After him are Myint Swe, Geneviève Page, Frank Caprio, Kunishige Kamamoto, Roberta Flack, and Yang Chen-Ning.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 1,114 out of NaN. Before him are Percival Lowell (1855), Robert Whittaker (1920), Gloria Swanson (1899), Tori Amos (1963), Lawrence Klein (1920), and Robert F. Furchgott (1916). After him are Sam Harris (1967), James Gunn (1966), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), Benjamin Guggenheim (1865), Martin Seligman (1942), and Gena Rowlands (1930).

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Among Biologists In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 19. Before him are Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), John B. Calhoun (1917), Sylvia Earle (1935), John Hopfield (1933), and Robert Whittaker (1920). After him are John Franklin Enders (1897), Lynn Margulis (1938), Gerald Edelman (1929), Edward B. Lewis (1918), Daniel Nathans (1928), and E. O. Wilson (1929).

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