1908 - 1997
Alfred Day Hershey (December 4, 1908 – May 22, 1997) was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist. He was born in Owosso, Michigan and received his B.S. in chemistry at Michigan State University in 1930 and his Ph.D. in bacteriology in 1934, taking a position shortly thereafter at the Department of Bacteriology at Washington University in St. Louis.Around 1943, Hershey met bacteriophage researchers Max Delbrück, then at Vanderbilt University, and Salvador Luria at Columbia University. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Hershey has received more than 179,992 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Alfred Hershey is the 82nd most popular biologist (up from 87th in 2019), the 943rd most popular biography from United States (up from 975th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Biologist.
Alfred Hershey is most famous for inventing the Hershey Kiss.
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Among biologists, Alfred Hershey ranks 82 out of 841. Before him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Jan Swammerdam, Gabriele Falloppio, and Carolus Clusius. After him are Elizabeth Blackburn, E. O. Wilson, André Michel Lwoff, John Gurdon, Werner Arber, and Bernard Katz.
1748 - 1836
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 76
1522 - 1605
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 77
1772 - 1844
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 78
1637 - 1680
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 79
1523 - 1562
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 80
1525 - 1609
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 81
1908 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 82
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 83
1929 - 2021
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 84
1902 - 1994
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 85
1933 - Present
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 86
1929 - Present
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 87
1911 - 2003
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 88
Among people born in 1908, Alfred Hershey ranks 42. Before him are Willard Libby, John Kenneth Galbraith, Balthus, Cesare Pavese, Ilya Frank, and Joseph Rotblat. After him are Günther Prien, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, Arthur Adamov, Józef Gosławski, Victor Ambartsumian, and Martha Gellhorn. Among people deceased in 1997, Alfred Hershey ranks 40. Before him are Otto Ernst Remer, Helenio Herrera, Zoltán Czibor, Shoichi Yokoi, Dodi Fayed, and John Eccles. After him are Nikolai Tikhonov, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, John Kendrew, John Denver, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Charles Brenton Huggins.
1908 - 1980
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 36
1908 - 2006
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 37
1908 - 2001
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 38
1908 - 1950
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 39
1908 - 1990
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 40
1908 - 2005
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 41
1908 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 42
1908 - 1941
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 43
1908 - 1975
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 44
1908 - 1970
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 45
1908 - 1963
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 46
1908 - 1996
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 47
1908 - 1998
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 48
1912 - 1997
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 34
1910 - 1997
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 35
1929 - 1997
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 36
1915 - 1997
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 37
1955 - 1997
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 38
1903 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 39
1908 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 40
1905 - 1997
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 41
1912 - 1997
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 42
1917 - 1997
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 43
1943 - 1997
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 44
1912 - 1997
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 45
1901 - 1997
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 46
Among people born in United States, Alfred Hershey ranks 943 out of 18,182. Before him are Whoopi Goldberg (1955), George Jung (1942), Forest Whitaker (1961), Albert Pike (1809), Roy J. Glauber (1925), and Pat Garrett (1850). After him are Stan Getz (1927), Laura Bush (1946), C. Wright Mills (1916), E. O. Wilson (1929), Calamity Jane (1852), and Ali MacGraw (1939).
1955 - Present
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 937
1942 - 2021
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 938
1961 - Present
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 939
1809 - 1891
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 940
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 941
1850 - 1908
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 942
1908 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 943
1927 - 1991
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 944
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 945
1916 - 1962
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 946
1929 - 2021
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 947
1852 - 1903
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 948
1939 - Present
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 949
Among biologists born in United States, Alfred Hershey ranks 12. Before him are Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), Linda B. Buck (1947), George Beadle (1903), John Franklin Enders (1897), Lynn Margulis (1938), and Irwin Rose (1926). After him are E. O. Wilson (1929), Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Sylvia Earle (1935), George Davis Snell (1903), Norman Borlaug (1914), and Edward B. Lewis (1918).
1890 - 1967
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 6
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 7
1903 - 1989
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 8
1897 - 1985
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 9
1938 - 2011
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 10
1926 - 2015
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 11
1908 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 12
1929 - 2021
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 13
1915 - 2008
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 14
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 15
1903 - 1996
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 16
1914 - 2009
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 17
1918 - 2004
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 18