BIOLOGIST

Howard Martin Temin

1934 - 1994

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Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was an American geneticist and virologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard Martin Temin has received more than 210,956 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Howard Martin Temin is the 235th most popular biologist (down from 195th in 2019), the 2,219th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,015th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 3.87

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Howard Martin Temin ranks 235 out of 1,097Before him are Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Michael Houghton, Charles M. Rice, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Ludwik Fleck, and Carl Gustav Carus. After him are Vladimir Demikhov, Nehemiah Grew, Lorenz Oken, James Rothman, Willi Hennig, and Rudolf Vrba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Howard Martin Temin ranks 117Before him are Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma, Joan Didion, Omar Karami, Kira Muratova, Paul Cohen, and Gloria Steinem. After him are Wilford Brimley, Jean Chrétien, Dashrath Manjhi, Hank Aaron, William F. Sharpe, and Leonard Kleinrock. Among people deceased in 1994, Howard Martin Temin ranks 93Before him are Nikolai Ogarkov, Jack Unterweger, Max Morlock, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, James Clavell, and Andrés Escobar. After him are Baruch Goldstein, Juan Carlos Onetti, Wilma Rudolph, Marcel Bich, Manos Hatzidakis, and Roberto Burle Marx.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Howard Martin Temin ranks 2,219 out of 20,380Before him are Brenda Lee (1944), Ben Webster (1909), Dennis Wilson (1944), Curtis LeMay (1906), Kate Capshaw (1953), and Patrick Duffy (1949). After him are Stockard Channing (1944), Lloyd Shapley (1923), Jonathan Edwards (1703), Glenn Frey (1948), Fredric March (1897), and Robert Todd Lincoln (1843).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Howard Martin Temin ranks 44Before him are Michael W. Young (1949), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), James Dwight Dana (1813), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), George Smith (1941), and Charles M. Rice (1952). After him are James Rothman (1950), Martin Chalfie (1947), Michael Rosbash (1944), Carol W. Greider (1961), James Bond (1900), and Henrietta Lacks (1920).