Biologist

Harold E. Varmus

American scientist (born 1939)

1939 - today

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His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2024). Harold E. Varmus is the 403rd most popular biologist (up from 581st in 2024), the 3,508th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,215th in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Biologist.

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Harold E. Varmus is the most memorable of the 6 notable people born in Oceanside, New York, United States, ahead of Bob Iger, Mike Massimino, and David Paymer.

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Harold E. Varmus's biography appears in 46 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 87% of all Biologists.

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Harold E. Varmus shares a December 18 birthday with Steven Spielberg, J. J. Thomson, and Christina, Queen of Sweden.

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Among Biologists

Among biologists, Harold E. Varmus ranks 403 out of 1,121. Before him are Gary Ruvkun, Theodor Boveri, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Ludwik Fleck, Karl Koch, and Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre. After him are Lev Berg, Heinrich Anton de Bary, June Almeida, Georg August Goldfuss, Auguste Chevalier, and Philibert Commerson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Harold E. Varmus ranks 176. Before him are Susan Flannery, Rosanna Schiaffino, Andrew Parker Bowles, Lili Ivanova, Frank Vincent, and Brian Mulroney. After him are Heinz Holliger, Sal Mineo, Peppino di Capri, John Howard, Donald Adamson, and Ignacio Zoco.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold E. Varmus ranks 3,508 out of 23,232. Before him are Diana Nyad (1949), Paul Michael Glaser (1943), Barry Sullivan (1912), Scott Brown (1959), Robert Conrad (1935), and Sixto Durán Ballén (1921). After him are David Doyle (1929), Madeleine Astor (1893), Chuck Schumer (1950), William Wakefield Baum (1926), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), and Jared Kushner (1981).

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Among Biologists In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Harold E. Varmus ranks 71. Before him are Henrietta Lacks (1920), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Frank Chapman (1864), Esther Lederberg (1922), James Bond (1900), and Gary Ruvkun (1952). After him are Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), Asa Gray (1810), Arthur Cronquist (1919), Robert Weinberg (1942), and Robert Gallo (1937).

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