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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 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 267,238 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Boyer is the 846th most popular biologist, the 8,739th most popular biography from United States and the 119th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 43.25

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Herbert Boyer ranks 846 out of 841. Before him are Gottlieb Haberlandt, Blasius Merrem, Alfred Romer, Frank Fenner, Louis Fraser, and Prideaux John Selby. After him are Joseph Barcroft, Jules Pierre Rambur, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Robert Ridgway, Charles Horton Peck, and Janet Rowley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Herbert Boyer ranks 435. Before him are Hannu Salama, Paulo Emilio, German Apukhtin, Gerald Scarfe, Janusz Zakrzeński, and M. Scott Peck. After him are Tony Lo Bianco, Charlie Daniels, Leon O. Chua, Loren Acton, Rubén Héctor Sosa, and Sissy Schwarz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herbert Boyer ranks 8,739 out of 18,182. Before him are Mary Arthur McElroy (1841), Fritz Weaver (1926), Method Man (1971), Victoria Justice (1993), Norman Kerry (1894), and James Cotton (1935). After him are Neal Schon (1954), Denton Cooley (1920), Debby Ryan (1993), Chris von Saltza (1944), George J. Mitchell (1933), and Chloe Webb (1956).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Herbert Boyer ranks 119. Before him are Jane Colden (1724), Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875), Mary Katharine Brandegee (1844), George Ord (1781), and Alfred Romer (1894). After him are Robert Ridgway (1850), Charles Horton Peck (1833), Janet Rowley (1925), William Beebe (1877), Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858), and John Torrey (1796).

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