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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 169,420 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Esther Lederberg is the 453rd most popular biologist (down from 442nd in 2019), the 4,493rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,023rd in 2019) and the 69th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.78

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  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Esther Lederberg ranks 453 out of 841. Before her are Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Georg Joseph Kamel, and Pierre Magnol. After her are Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Edouard Van Beneden, Sabiha Kasimati, Carl Borivoj Presl, and Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Esther Lederberg ranks 223. Before her are Luiz Bonfá, Hilarion Capucci, Võ Văn Kiệt, Bob Martin, Farrokhroo Parsa, and Blaga Dimitrova. After her are Bhimsen Joshi, Alexander Kazhdan, Vladimir Etush, Richard Kiley, Ester Mägi, and Daniel Boulanger. Among people deceased in 2006, Esther Lederberg ranks 182. Before her are Rainer Barzel, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Mariam Aslamazian, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Asima Chatterjee, and Shoshana Damari. After her are Vilgot Sjöman, Elizabeth Bolden, Andreas Katsulas, Kent Andersson, Theodore Levitt, and Akira Ifukube.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Esther Lederberg ranks 4,493 out of 18,182. Before her are Dom DeLuise (1933), Dee Wallace (1948), Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893), Johnny Appleseed (1774), Gordon Matta-Clark (1943), and Herb Ritts (1952). After her are Roderick MacKinnon (1956), J. J. Johnson (1924), Christine Jorgensen (1926), Jack Sharkey (1902), John Stagliano (1951), and James Mangold (1963).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Esther Lederberg ranks 69. Before her are Barry Commoner (1917), Andrew Fire (1959), Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), and Sewall Wright (1889). After her are Craig Mello (1960), Garrett Hardin (1915), Aldo Leopold (1887), Charles David Keeling (1928), David Starr Jordan (1851), and Arthur Cronquist (1919).

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