BIOLOGIST

Joshua Lederberg

1925 - 2008

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Joshua Lederberg (May 23, 1925 – February 2, 2008) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joshua Lederberg has received more than 402,090 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Joshua Lederberg is the 162nd most popular biologist (down from 137th in 2019), the 1,426th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,368th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 60.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joshua Lederberg ranks 162 out of 1,097. Before him are Norman Borlaug, Salvador Luria, Olaus Rudbeck, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Michel Adanson, and Charles Bonnet. After him are Susumu Tonegawa, Robert Whittaker, Johan Christian Fabricius, Renato Dulbecco, Georges J. F. Köhler, and Pierre André Latreille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Joshua Lederberg ranks 82. Before him are Ernest Gellner, Hilda Gadea, Charles Chaplin Jr., Claude Lanzmann, Michel de Certeau, and Hal Holbrook. After him are Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Harry Harrison, Gabriele Ferzetti, Sufi Abu Taleb, Paul Greengard, and Willi Herold. Among people deceased in 2008, Joshua Lederberg ranks 54. Before him are Phil Hill, Dino Risi, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Dorothy Vaughan, Horst Tappert, and Tassos Papadopoulos. After him are Rajko Mitić, Sufi Abu Taleb, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Henri Cartan, Jerry Reed, and Mark Felt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joshua Lederberg ranks 1,426 out of 20,380. Before him are Ellery Harding Clark (1874), Joseph Murray (1919), Aaron Burr (1756), Thomas Schelling (1921), Hal Holbrook (1925), and George Smoot (1945). After him are Henry Rollins (1961), Hiram Maxim (1840), Neil Diamond (1941), William Daniel Phillips (1948), Beck (1970), and Daniel Dennett (1942).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Joshua Lederberg ranks 28. Before him are Gerald Edelman (1929), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), J. Michael Bishop (1936), George Davis Snell (1903), Leland H. Hartwell (1939), and Norman Borlaug (1914). After him are Robert Whittaker (1920), Paul Greengard (1925), George Wald (1906), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), and Daniel Nathans (1928).

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