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BIOLOGIST

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 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

Among biologists, Harold E. Varmus ranks 368 out of 841Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Harold E. Varmus ranks 202Before 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.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold E. Varmus ranks 3,634 out of 18,182Before 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).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Harold E. Varmus ranks 62Before 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).