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Ben Barres

1954 - 2017

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Benjamin Barres (formerly Barbara A. Barres, September 13, 1954 – December 27, 2017) was an American neurobiologist at Stanford University. His research focused on the interaction between neurons and glial cells in the nervous system. Beginning in 2008, he was chair of the Neurobiology Department at Stanford University School of Medicine. He transitioned to male in 1997, and became the first openly transgender scientist in the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ben Barres has received more than 492,684 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ben Barres is the 1,088th most popular biologist (down from 938th in 2019), the 15,798th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,061st in 2019) and the 187th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 490k

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  • 43.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ben Barres ranks 1,088 out of 1,097. Before her are Matt Ridley, Pamela C. Rasmussen, David Bellamy, Christian Drosten, Peter Piot, and Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield. After her are Gita Ramjee, Peter Dodson, PZ Myers, Feng Zhang, Maria Van Kerkhove, and Lubna Tahtamouni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ben Barres ranks 726. Before her are Kent Benson, Honey Irani, Susan Huggett, Dafydd Williams, Ken MacLeod, and Gale Norton. After her are Beverley Whitfield, Namadi Sambo, Yoshiaki Shimojo, Doug Jones, Gregory Maguire, and Elizabeth May. Among people deceased in 2017, Ben Barres ranks 664. Before her are David Poisson, Julia Perez, Yurizan Beltran, Mark White, Helen Dunmore, and Gauri Lankesh. After her are Judy Martz, Mundell Lowe, Stefano Farina, Serge Baguet, Aaron Hernandez, and Ralphie May.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ben Barres ranks 15,798 out of 20,380. Before her are Tom Emmer (1961), Amandla Stenberg (1998), Shawn Fanning (1980), Spencer Abraham (1952), Lavell Crawford (1968), and John Daly (1966). After her are James Arnold Taylor (1969), Thom Tillis (1960), Charles Rangel (1930), Janet Jones (1961), Abyss (1973), and Pauly Shore (1968).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Ben Barres ranks 187. Before her are Albert William Herre (1868), Stephen Schneider (1945), Jerry Coyne (1949), Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913), Margaret Morse Nice (1883), and Jill Bolte Taylor (1959). After her are Peter Dodson (1946), PZ Myers (1957), Maria Van Kerkhove (1977), and Sean B. Carroll (1960).

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