BIOLOGIST

George Beadle

1903 - 1989

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George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 – June 9, 1989) was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Beadle has received more than 181,681 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). George Beadle is the 61st most popular biologist (up from 64th in 2019), the 646th most popular biography from United States (up from 787th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Biologist.

Beadle was a publisher of dime novels and is most famous for publishing the first dime novel, Beadle's Dime Novels, which was a collection of stories that were published in the early 1800s.

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  • 70.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, George Beadle ranks 61 out of 1,097. Before him are Sylvia Earle, Hugo de Vries, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Daniel Bovet, John Edward Gray, and Nikolai Vavilov. After him are Adelbert von Chamisso, Trofim Lysenko, Irwin Rose, Linda B. Buck, André Michel Lwoff, and August Weismann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, George Beadle ranks 32. Before him are Nikolai Podgorny, Igor Kurchatov, Jiro Horikoshi, Fahri Korutürk, Karl Hanke, and Raymond Queneau. After him are John Dillinger, Irène Némirovsky, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Matthias Sindelar, Haldan Keffer Hartline, and Bruno Bettelheim. Among people deceased in 1989, George Beadle ranks 30. Before him are Thomas Bernhard, Hu Yaobang, Ferdinand Marcos, Silvana Mangano, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Emilio Segrè. After him are Daphne du Maurier, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, John Hicks, Joris Ivens, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and Hermann Oberth.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Beadle ranks 646 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard Chamberlain (1934), Gene Wilder (1933), Monica Lewinsky (1973), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), Jeff Goldblum (1952), and D. B. Cooper (1931). After him are John Dillinger (1903), Alec Baldwin (1958), Lionel Richie (1949), Stanford Moore (1913), Paul Berg (1926), and George Minot (1885).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, George Beadle ranks 7. Before him are James Watson (1928), Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), Rachel Carson (1907), Barbara McClintock (1902), Dian Fossey (1932), and Sylvia Earle (1935). After him are Irwin Rose (1926), Linda B. Buck (1947), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), John B. Calhoun (1917), and Lynn Margulis (1938).

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