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Ben Barres

1954 - 2017

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Benjamin Anthony "Ben" 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ben Barres has received more than 435,313 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ben Barres is the 939th most popular biologist (down from 829th in 2019), the 12,088th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,134th in 2019) and the 149th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ben Barres ranks 939 out of 841. Before her are Karl Shuker, Elliott Coues, George Don, Philippa Marrack, Alice Wilson, and Alice Eastwood. After her are Amos Eaton, Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, John Hutton Balfour, Peter Ascanius, William Healey Dall, and Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ben Barres ranks 554. Before her are Don Stark, Geoffrey Marcy, Frédéric Pietruszka, José Van Tuyne, Kristine DeBell, and Maatia Toafa. After her are Craig Wasson, Alan Kennedy, Rustem Khamitov, Priscilla Barnes, Gabriel Costa, and Željko Pahek. Among people deceased in 2017, Ben Barres ranks 550. Before her are Wilfried, Lothar Thoms, Anne Jeffreys, Nancy Dupree, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, and Warrel Dane. After her are Tino Insana, Steve Sumner, George Avakian, Milt Schmidt, Denis Johnson, and Jim Bunning.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ben Barres ranks 12,088 out of 18,182. Before her are Cecily von Ziegesar (1970), Maximiliano Hernández (1973), Jon Carin (1964), Seth Gabel (1981), Levi Woodbury (1789), and Hughie Thomasson (1952). After her are Ken Bowersox (1956), Dulé Hill (1975), Joshua Malina (1966), John Herrington (1958), Amos Eaton (1776), and David Lovering (1961).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Ben Barres ranks 149. Before her are Jessica Meir (1977), Timothy Ray Brown (1966), Norman I. Platnick (1951), Eugenie Clark (1922), Paul Sereno (1957), and Elliott Coues (1842). After her are Amos Eaton (1776), Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), William Healey Dall (1845), Henry Weed Fowler (1878), Jerry Coyne (1949), and Susan Lindquist (1949).

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