BIOLOGIST

John Franklin Enders

1897 - 1985

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John Franklin Enders (February 10, 1897 – September 8, 1985) was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Franklin Enders has received more than 210,575 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). John Franklin Enders is the 101st most popular biologist (down from 69th in 2019), the 1,004th most popular biography from United States (down from 841st in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Biologist.

John Franklin Enders was an American medical researcher who was the first to grow the polio virus in human tissue culture. He was also the co-discoverer of the polio vaccine.

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  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.50

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  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Franklin Enders ranks 101 out of 1,097. Before him are Gabriele Falloppio, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Günter Blobel, Jules A. Hoffmann, Lynn Margulis, and Oliver Smithies. After him are Jean Dausset, Nettie Stevens, Thomas Huckle Weller, Louis Agassiz, Edward Tatum, and Jan Swammerdam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, John Franklin Enders ranks 44. Before him are Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Patrick Blackett, Kirill Meretskov, Vlado Chernozemski, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Joseph Berchtold. After him are Leonid Govorov, Gershom Scholem, John Cockcroft, Margaret Mahler, Emil Maurice, and Vasily Sokolovsky. Among people deceased in 1985, John Franklin Enders ranks 22. Before him are Dian Fossey, Lon Nol, Philip Larkin, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Anne Baxter, and Ferhat Abbas. After him are Paul Flory, Margaret Mahler, Emil Gilels, Macfarlane Burnet, James Hadley Chase, and George Pólya.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Franklin Enders ranks 1,004 out of 20,380. Before him are Tony Bennett (1926), Roger Zelazny (1937), Kary Mullis (1944), John Gotti (1940), Sherwood Anderson (1876), and Karl Barry Sharpless (1941). After him are Jerry Bruckheimer (1943), Louise Fletcher (1934), Mae West (1893), Nettie Stevens (1861), Meat Loaf (1947), and L. Ron Hubbard (1911).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, John Franklin Enders ranks 14. Before him are Irwin Rose (1926), Linda B. Buck (1947), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), John B. Calhoun (1917), and Lynn Margulis (1938). After him are Nettie Stevens (1861), Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Edward Tatum (1909), Alfred Hershey (1908), Carl Woese (1928), and Edward B. Lewis (1918).

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