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Edward Tatum

1909 - 1975

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Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Tatum has received more than 92,158 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Edward Tatum is the 175th most popular biologist (down from 117th in 2019), the 1,741st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,289th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Biologist.

Edward Tatum was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1958 for his work on the structure of proteins.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edward Tatum ranks 175 out of 841Before him are Michael Houghton, Temple Grandin, John B. Calhoun, Hans Driesch, Wilbur Scoville, and Stephen Jay Gould. After him are Leland H. Hartwell, Antoine Béchamp, J. B. S. Haldane, Rudolf Vrba, George Wald, and Joseph Banks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Edward Tatum ranks 59Before him are Art Tatum, Alain Poher, Otto Kumm, Albert R. Broccoli, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, and Nikolay Bogolyubov. After him are Yiannis Ritsos, Clement Greenberg, Marguerite Perey, Nathan Rosen, Lennart Bernadotte, and Porfirio Rubirosa. Among people deceased in 1975, Edward Tatum ranks 51Before him are Vicente Feola, George Stevens, P. G. Wodehouse, Elijah Muhammad, Leroy Anderson, and Luigi Dallapiccola. After him are Thornton Wilder, Ivan Maisky, Hans Bellmer, Marguerite Perey, Gunnar Gunnarsson, and Eugen Fink.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Tatum ranks 1,741 out of 18,182Before him are Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Creighton Abrams (1914), Dana Elcar (1927), James Patterson (1947), Alan Alda (1936), and Lee Majors (1939). After him are Tony Burton (1937), Leland H. Hartwell (1939), Gene Roddenberry (1921), Eric Schmidt (1955), Murray Bookchin (1921), and Jeffrey DeMunn (1947).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Edward Tatum ranks 34Before him are J. Michael Bishop (1936), Paul Greengard (1925), Temple Grandin (1947), John B. Calhoun (1917), Wilbur Scoville (1865), and Stephen Jay Gould (1941). After him are Leland H. Hartwell (1939), George Wald (1906), George Smith (1941), Howard Martin Temin (1934), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), and Charles M. Rice (1952).