BIOLOGIST

Esther Lederberg

1922 - 2006

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Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg (December 18, 1922 – November 11, 2006) was an American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Esther Lederberg has received more than 177,314 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Esther Lederberg is the 336th most popular biologist (up from 452nd in 2019), the 3,105th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,481st in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 180k

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  • 54.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Esther Lederberg ranks 336 out of 1,097. Before her are Leizu, George Ord, Hermann Burmeister, Motoo Kimura, Craig Venter, and Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov. After her are Jacob Christian Schäffer, David Bruce, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Wilder Penfield, Carl Ludwig Blume, and Georg Franz Hoffmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Esther Lederberg ranks 167. Before her are Kingsley Amis, Mauro Bolognini, Theo Albrecht, Charles M. Schulz, Stephen Toulmin, and Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg. After her are Maila Nurmi, Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, Manshuk Mametova, Otl Aicher, John Edward Williams, and Esther Brand. Among people deceased in 2006, Esther Lederberg ranks 123. Before her are Carl Brashear, Elias Hrawi, William Auld, Prince George William of Hanover, Vera Aceva, and George Koval. After her are Faas Wilkes, Coretta Scott King, Allan Kaprow, Marie Tharp, Ferenc Szusza, and W. Montgomery Watt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Esther Lederberg ranks 3,105 out of 20,380. Before her are Jim Abrahams (1944), Winston Groom (1943), James S. Sherman (1855), George Koval (1913), Daniel Inouye (1924), and Daniel Boone (1734). After her are Frances Sternhagen (1930), Larry Semon (1889), Annie Proulx (1935), Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), Raymond Smullyan (1919), and John Waters (1946).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Esther Lederberg ranks 60. Before her are James P. Allison (1948), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), Bruce Beutler (1957), Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), George Ord (1781), and Craig Venter (1946). After her are Wilder Penfield (1891), Andrew Fire (1959), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Robert Gallo (1937), Brian Kobilka (1955), and Martha Chase (1927).

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