BIOLOGIST

Harald zur Hausen

1936 - 2023

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Harald zur Hausen NAS EASA APS (German pronunciation: [ˈhaʁalt tsuːɐ̯ ˈhaʊzn̩] ; 11 March 1936 – 29 May 2023) was a German virologist. He carried out research on cervical cancer and discovered the role of papilloma viruses in cervical cancer, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harald zur Hausen has received more than 257,284 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Harald zur Hausen is the 36th most popular biologist (down from 34th in 2019), the 417th most popular biography from Germany (down from 394th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Biologist.

Harald zur Hausen is most famous for his discovery of the human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Harald zur Hausen ranks 36 out of 1,097. Before him are Ada Yonath, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Barbara McClintock, Albrecht Kossel, Charles Richet, and Matthias Jakob Schleiden. After him are Dian Fossey, Karl von Frisch, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Vladimir Vernadsky, and Karl Ernst von Baer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Harald zur Hausen ranks 23. Before him are Valery Legasov, Ismail Kadare, Wilt Chamberlain, Dennis Hopper, Ursula Andress, and Barack Obama Sr.. After him are Uwe Seeler, Zubin Mehta, Virna Lisi, David Carradine, Michael Landon, and Ferid Murad. Among people deceased in 2023, Harald zur Hausen ranks 27. Before him are Mohamed Al-Fayed, Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Paco Rabanne, Ryan O'Neal, Jacques Delors, and K. Alex Müller. After him are Luis Suárez, Li Keqiang, Ferid Murad, Raquel Welch, Helmut Berger, and Burt Young.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Harald zur Hausen ranks 417 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Drais (1785), Anna Magdalena Bach (1701), Louise Mountbatten (1889), Traudl Junge (1920), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), and Robert Ley (1890). After him are Jürgen Klopp (1967), Otto of Bavaria (1848), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Richard Willstätter (1872), Helmuth Weidling (1891), and Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Harald zur Hausen ranks 7. Before him are Ernst Haeckel (1834), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), Theodor Schwann (1810), Albrecht Kossel (1853), and Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804). After him are Hans Spemann (1869), Peter Simon Pallas (1741), August Weismann (1834), Ernst Mayr (1904), Bernard Katz (1911), and Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806).

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