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Harold E. Varmus

1939 - Today

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Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center. He was a co-recipient (along with J. Michael Bishop) of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold E. Varmus has received more than 332,031 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Harold E. Varmus is the 581st most popular biologist (down from 367th in 2019), the 5,216th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,624th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Biologist.

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  • 57.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Harold E. Varmus ranks 581 out of 1,097. Before him are Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, William Elford Leach, Jacob Sturm, George Allman, and Georg August Schweinfurth. After him are Edmond Albius, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Franz Unger, Johann Gottfried Zinn, Tsuneko Okazaki, and João de Loureiro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Harold E. Varmus ranks 306. Before him are Valery Rozhdestvensky, Giulio Angioni, Litokwa Tomeing, Sid Haig, Adam Osborne, and Jackie Burroughs. After him are Irán Eory, Renate Boy, János Göröcs, Robert Herbin, Vaçe Zela, and David Frost.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold E. Varmus ranks 5,216 out of 20,380. Before him are Kenneth Mars (1935), Marian Seldes (1928), Sterling Morrison (1942), Jimi Jamison (1951), James Arness (1923), and Eli Lilly (1838). After him are Stephen A. Douglas (1813), Kristen Wiig (1973), Anita Page (1910), Bill Nieder (1933), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), and Albert Gutterson (1887).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Harold E. Varmus ranks 82. Before him are Frederic Clements (1874), Craig Mello (1960), Alice Hamilton (1869), Mary Agnes Chase (1869), Barry Commoner (1917), and Sewall Wright (1889). After him are Garrett Hardin (1915), Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), Jack Horner (1946), Alfred Sturtevant (1891), George C. Williams (1926), and Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856).

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