BIOLOGIST

Bruce Beutler

1957 - Today

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Bruce Alan Beutler ( BOYT-lər; born December 29, 1957) is an American immunologist and geneticist. Together with Jules A. Hoffmann, he received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for "discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity." Beutler discovered the long-elusive receptor for lipopolysaccharide (LPS; also known as endotoxin). He did so by identifying spontaneous mutations in the gene coding for mouse Toll-like receptor 4 (Tlr4) in two unrelated strains of LPS-refractory mice and proving they were responsible for that phenotype. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruce Beutler has received more than 183,725 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. Bruce Beutler is the 320th most popular biologist (down from 223rd in 2019), the 2,998th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,374th in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 180k

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  • 54.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Bruce Beutler ranks 320 out of 1,097. Before him are Patrick Geddes, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Otto Friedrich Müller, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, John Sulston, and Rupert Sheldrake. After him are Charles Chamberland, Eugenius Warming, Phillip Allen Sharp, Michał Boym, Armen Takhtajan, and Erich von Tschermak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Bruce Beutler ranks 90. Before him are Emmanuel Carrère, Paweł Pawlikowski, Jaggi Vasudev, John Lasseter, Thierry Boutsen, and José Sócrates. After him are Esmail Ghaani, Dan Castellaneta, Ted Levine, Duško Ivanović, Patrick Battiston, and Clive Burr.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bruce Beutler ranks 2,998 out of 20,380. Before him are Gordon Cooper (1927), Donald O'Connor (1925), Marcia Gay Harden (1959), Hannibal Hamlin (1809), Elihu Root (1845), and Ben Wallace (1974). After him are Claude Akins (1926), Charles Berlitz (1913), Tico Torres (1953), Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809), Henry Wilson (1812), and Matthew Modine (1959).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Bruce Beutler ranks 56. Before him are Henrietta Lacks (1920), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), David Julius (1955), David Baltimore (1938), James P. Allison (1948), and Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903). After him are Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), George Ord (1781), Craig Venter (1946), Esther Lederberg (1922), Wilder Penfield (1891), and Andrew Fire (1959).

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