1909 - 1975
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, Edward Tatum ranks 175 out of 841. Before 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.
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 169
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 170
1917 - 1995
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 171
1867 - 1941
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 172
1865 - 1942
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 173
1941 - 2002
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 174
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 175
1939 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 176
1816 - 1908
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 177
1892 - 1964
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 178
1924 - 2006
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 179
1906 - 1997
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 180
1743 - 1820
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 181
Among people born in 1909, Edward Tatum ranks 59. Before 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 51. Before 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.
1909 - 1956
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 53
1909 - 1996
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 54
1909 - 2004
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 55
1909 - 1996
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 56
1909 - 1998
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 57
1909 - 1992
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 58
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 59
1909 - 1990
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 60
1909 - 1994
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 61
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 62
1909 - 1995
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 63
1909 - 2004
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 64
1909 - 1965
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 65
1909 - 1975
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 45
1904 - 1975
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 46
1881 - 1975
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 47
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 48
1908 - 1975
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 49
1904 - 1975
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 50
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 51
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 52
1884 - 1975
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 53
1902 - 1975
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 54
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 55
1889 - 1975
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 56
1905 - 1975
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 57
Among people born in United States, Edward Tatum ranks 1,741 out of 18,182. Before 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).
1897 - 1941
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 1,735
1914 - 1974
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 1,736
1927 - 2005
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 1,737
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 1,738
1936 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 1,739
1939 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 1,740
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 1,741
1937 - 2016
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 1,742
1939 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 1,743
1921 - 1991
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 1,744
1955 - Present
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 1,745
1921 - 2006
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 1,746
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 1,747
Among biologists born in United States, Edward Tatum ranks 34. Before 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).
1936 - Present
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 28
1925 - 2019
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 29
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 30
1917 - 1995
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 31
1865 - 1942
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 32
1941 - 2002
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 33
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 34
1939 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 35
1906 - 1997
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 36
1941 - Present
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 37
1934 - 1994
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 38
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 39
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 40