BIOLOGIST

Daniel Nathans

1928 - 1999

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Daniel Nathans (October 30, 1928 – November 16, 1999) was an American microbiologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Nathans has received more than 173,309 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Nathans is the 191st most popular biologist (down from 146th in 2019), the 1,758th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,438th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Biologist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Daniel Nathans ranks 191 out of 1,097Before him are Armand David, Jeffrey C. Hall, Ian Wilmut, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Eva Ekeblad, and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle. After him are Henry Walter Bates, George Shaw, Asa Gray, Alexander Agassiz, Temple Grandin, and Carl Ludwig Willdenow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Daniel Nathans ranks 106Before him are James Earl Ray, Ida Haendel, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Sol LeWitt, Seymour Papert, and Torben Ulrich. After him are Fats Domino, Takeshi Inoue, Malcolm Glazer, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Djivan Gasparyan, and Al Lettieri. Among people deceased in 1999, Daniel Nathans ranks 58Before him are João Figueiredo, Alfredo Kraus, Charlotte Perriand, Dirk Bogarde, Rafael Alberti, and Lajos Tichy. After him are Brion James, Gyula Zsengellér, Igor Netto, Sebastian Haffner, Momčilo Đujić, and Dusty Springfield.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Nathans ranks 1,758 out of 20,380Before him are Emilio Estevez (1962), Billy Crystal (1948), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), Robby Krieger (1946), Lloyd Bridges (1913), and Kenneth Waltz (1924). After him are Virginia Henderson (1897), Fats Domino (1928), Bob Newhart (1929), Peter Coyote (1941), Brion James (1945), and Robert H. Grubbs (1942).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Daniel Nathans ranks 34Before him are Joshua Lederberg (1925), Robert Whittaker (1920), Paul Greengard (1925), George Wald (1906), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), and Jeffrey C. Hall (1945). After him are Asa Gray (1810), Temple Grandin (1947), Wilbur Scoville (1865), Michael W. Young (1949), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), and James Dwight Dana (1813).