The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Taiwan
This page contains a list of the greatest Taiwanese Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 841 Biologists, 1 of which were born in Taiwan. This makes Taiwan the birth place of the 53rd most number of Biologists behind Peru and Isle of Man.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Taiwanese Biologists of all time. This list of famous Taiwanese Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. David Ho (1952 - )
With an HPI of 46.86, David Ho is the most famous Taiwanese Biologist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
David Da-i Ho (Chinese: 何大一; born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher, physician, and virologist who has made a number of scientific contributions to the understanding and treatment of HIV infection. He championed for combination anti-retroviral therapy instead of single therapy, which turned HIV from an absolute terminal disease into a chronic disease. David Ho was born in Taiwan in 1952 and immigrated to the United States in 1965, where he was educated at California Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School (through the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology) before getting his clinical training at UCLA School of Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the founding scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, both housed at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as biologists born between 1952 and 1952. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living biologists include David Ho.
