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Bruce Ames

1928 - 2024

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Bruce Nathan Ames (December 16, 1928 – October 5, 2024) was an American biochemist who was a professor of biochemistry and Molecular Biology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). Ames made contributions to understanding the mechanisms of mutagenesis and DNA repair. He invented the Ames test, a widely used assay for easily and cheaply evaluating the mutagenicity of compounds. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruce Ames has received more than 188,845 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Bruce Ames is the 558th most popular chemist (down from 518th in 2019), the 9,825th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,629th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Chemist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Bruce Ames ranks 558 out of 602. Before him are J. L. B. Smith, Florence B. Seibert, Mildred Cohn, Mary L. Good, Ching Wan Tang, and Max Bodenstein. After him are Anna J. Harrison, Faiza Al-Kharafi, Mary Engle Pennington, K. C. Nicolaou, Barbara Askins, and Henry Roscoe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Bruce Ames ranks 518. Before him are Joaquín Capilla, Beniamino Andreatta, Christian Poncelet, Yakov Rylsky, Maggie McNamara, and Jerome Biffle. After him are Ed Macauley, René Vautier, Dagmar Rom, Sheila Lerwill, George Maharis, and Jerry Bock. Among people deceased in 2024, Bruce Ames ranks 364. Before him are Shigeharu Ueki, Choi Dae-shik, Moacir Rodrigues Santos, Arvo Valton, Kenjiro Shinozuka, and Robert Coover. After him are Comunardo Niccolai, Ivan Charota, Alexander Goehr, Domingo Pérez, Manfred Wolke, and David Bordwell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bruce Ames ranks 9,825 out of 20,380. Before him are Janice E. Voss (1956), Carl Kaufmann (1936), Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835), Angie Harmon (1972), Robert Lockwood Jr. (1915), and Sherry Stringfield (1967). After him are Spark Matsunaga (1916), Charles Stanton Ogle (1865), Thomas Starzl (1926), Paul Craig Roberts (1939), Laz Alonso (1974), and Ian Wolfe (1896).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Bruce Ames ranks 98. Before him are Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), Helen Murray Free (1923), Bruce Alberts (1938), Florence B. Seibert (1897), Mildred Cohn (1913), and Mary L. Good (1931). After him are Anna J. Harrison (1912), Mary Engle Pennington (1872), Barbara Askins (1939), George M. Whitesides (1939), Ira Remsen (1846), and Marie Maynard Daly (1921).

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