ECONOMIST

Eric Lander

1957 - Today

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Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957) is an American mathematician and geneticist who is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School. Eric Lander is founding director emeritus of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Lander served as the 11th director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President in Joe Biden's presidential Cabinet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Lander has received more than 815,096 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Eric Lander is the 391st most popular economist (down from 364th in 2019), the 13,942nd most popular biography from United States (up from 14,148th in 2019) and the 121st most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Eric Lander ranks 391 out of 414Before him are Corinne Maier, Sławomir Skrzypek, Gita Gopinath, Paul Douglas, Guy Standing, and Andrei Shleifer. After him are Raghuram Rajan, Steve Keen, Peter Navarro, Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury, Ardo Hansson, and László Andor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Eric Lander ranks 663Before him are Mark E. Smith, Mitchell Baker, Mark Gordon, Juan Antonio Anquela, Paulo Vítor, and Frank B. Zoltowski. After him are Barbara Jordan, Dennis Brown, Takahiro Kimura, Yoshiyuki Matsuoka, Irene Epple, and Daniel W. Bursch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eric Lander ranks 13,942 out of 20,380Before him are Justin Cronin (1962), Ivan Dresser (1896), Domantas Sabonis (1996), Len Lesser (1922), Jerome Apt (1949), and Barbara Alyn Woods (1962). After him are Adele Mara (1923), Ayda Field (1979), Charlotte Cushman (1816), Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827), Nadine Sierra (1988), and Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Eric Lander ranks 121Before him are Richard Florida (1957), Martin Feldstein (1939), Richard D. Wolff (1942), Kenneth Rogoff (1953), Michael Albert (1947), and Paul Douglas (1892). After him are Peter Navarro (1949), Ardo Hansson (1958), Christina Romer (1958), Laura Tyson (1947), Winona LaDuke (1959), and Alan Krueger (1960).