1939 - Today
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 312,362 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Harold E. Varmus is the 368th most popular biologist (up from 615th in 2019), the 3,634th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,585th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Biologist.
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Among biologists, Harold E. Varmus ranks 368 out of 841. Before him are Princess Therese of Bavaria, Oldfield Thomas, Conrad Moench, Francis Darwin, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, and Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben. After him are Lucien Quélet, Kliment Timiryazev, Antoine de Jussieu, William Aiton, Otto Kuntze, and Wilhelm Roux.
1850 - 1925
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 362
1858 - 1929
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 363
1744 - 1805
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 364
1848 - 1925
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 365
1515 - 1587
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 366
1744 - 1777
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 367
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 368
1832 - 1899
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 369
1843 - 1920
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 370
1686 - 1758
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 371
1731 - 1793
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 372
1843 - 1907
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 373
1850 - 1924
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 374
Among people born in 1939, Harold E. Varmus ranks 202. Before him are Joachim Yhombi-Opango, Susannah York, Peppino di Capri, Rosanna Schiaffino, Branko Kostić, and Michael Gazzaniga. After him are Alfredo Palacio, Elena Obraztsova, Giorgio Gaber, Panajot Pano, James Burton, and Ignacio Zoco.
1939 - 2020
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 196
1939 - 2011
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 197
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 198
1939 - 2009
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 199
1939 - 2020
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 200
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 201
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 202
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 203
1939 - 2015
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 204
1939 - 2003
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 205
1939 - 2010
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 206
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 207
1939 - 2015
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 208
Among people born in United States, Harold E. Varmus ranks 3,634 out of 18,182. Before him are John Mearsheimer (1947), David Blaine (1973), Gil Amelio (1943), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), Henry Kuttner (1915), and David Eddings (1931). After him are Monica Potter (1971), Anna Gunn (1968), Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), Allen Klein (1931), Cynthia Rothrock (1957), and Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930).
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,628
1973 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,629
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,630
1805 - 1852
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,631
1915 - 1958
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,632
1931 - 2009
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,633
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,634
1971 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,635
1968 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,636
1847 - 1931
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 3,637
1931 - 2009
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 3,638
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 3,639
1930 - Present
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 3,640
Among biologists born in United States, Harold E. Varmus ranks 62. Before him are Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), James Rothman (1950), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), Eugene Odum (1913), and Luther Burbank (1849). After him are Barry Commoner (1917), Andrew Fire (1959), Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), and Sewall Wright (1889).
1944 - Present
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 56
1903 - 1967
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 57
1950 - Present
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 58
1947 - Present
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 59
1913 - 2002
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 60
1849 - 1926
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 61
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 62
1917 - 2012
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 63
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 64
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 65
1927 - 2003
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 66
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 67
1889 - 1988
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 68