BIOLOGIST

Herbert Boyer

1936 - Today

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Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer (born July 10, 1936) is an American biotechnologist, researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg, he discovered recombinant DNA, a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, which aided in jump-starting the field of genetic engineering. By 1969, Boyer performed studies on a couple of restriction enzymes of the E.coli bacterium with especially useful properties. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Boyer has received more than 288,721 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Herbert Boyer is the 976th most popular biologist (down from 845th in 2019), the 10,125th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,721st in 2019) and the 144th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Herbert Boyer ranks 976 out of 1,097. Before him are William Diller Matthew, Robert H. MacArthur, Leonhard Stejneger, Sarah Gilbert, Irene Pepperberg, and Gilbert White. After him are Frank Chapman, Wim Crusio, Pieter Willem Korthals, Helia Bravo Hollis, Flossie Wong-Staal, and Richard Spruce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Herbert Boyer ranks 519. Before him are Yury Osipov, Wolfgang Behrendt, Ismail Merchant, Andrzej Zieliński, Heinz Vollmar, and Carey Bell. After him are Elizabeth Dole, Paula Marosi, Edward C. Stone, Taisia Chenchik, Reginald Hill, and Nicolas Alfonsi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herbert Boyer ranks 10,125 out of 20,380. Before him are Ronnie Ray Smith (1949), Katie Couric (1957), Gladys Egan (1900), Rakim (1968), Donald H. Peterson (1933), and Johnny Sheffield (1931). After him are Jeanne Bates (1918), Anna Chlumsky (1980), Grady Booch (1955), John Bell (1796), Riley Keough (1989), and Walter Frederick Morrison (1920).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Herbert Boyer ranks 144. Before him are Charles Sibley (1917), Janet Rowley (1925), Alexander Wetmore (1886), James Chapin (1889), John Lawrence LeConte (1825), and Irene Pepperberg (1949). After him are Frank Chapman (1864), Christof Koch (1956), Beatrice Mintz (1921), Paul Sereno (1957), William Healey Dall (1845), and Fanny Hesse (1850).

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