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Ken Alibek

1950 - Today

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Kanatzhan "Kanat" Baizakovich Alibekov (born 1950), known as Kenneth "Ken" Alibek since 1992, is a Kazakh-American microbiologist, bioweaponeer, and biological warfare administrative management expert. He was the first deputy director of Biopreparat. During his career in Soviet bioweaponry development in the late 1970s and 1980s, Alibekov managed projects that included weaponizing glanders and Marburg hemorrhagic fever, and created Russia's first tularemia bomb. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Alibek has received more than 258,919 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Alibek is the 862nd most popular biologist, the 69th most popular biography from Kazakhstan and the most popular Kazakhstani Biologist.

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  • 260k

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  • 53.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ken Alibek ranks 862 out of 1,097. Before him are William John Swainson, C. B. van Niel, Johannes Schmidt, Axel Gudbrand Blytt, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Stanley Norman Cohen. After him are Thomas Bell, George Montagu, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Grigore Antipa, Thomas Campbell Eyton, and Pierre Chambon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Ken Alibek ranks 452. Before him are Alan Sorrenti, Serge Chiesa, Roland Andersson, Jill Stein, Mac Wilkins, and Yuji Hyakutake. After him are Juice Leskinen, Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, Teddy Pendergrass, Aloma Wright, Anders Linderoth, and Evgeny Sveshnikov.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Ken Alibek ranks 69 out of 193. Before him are Alexander Kazantsev (1906), Dimash Kudaibergen (1994), Sergei Lukyanenko (1968), Nurlan Balgimbayev (1947), Arkady Volozh (1964), and Imangali Tasmagambetov (1956). After him are Daniyal Akhmetov (1954), David Rigert (1947), Rashid Nurgaliyev (1956), Ruslana Korshunova (1987), Gennady Golovkin (1982), and Näcip Cihanov (1911).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Kazakhstan

Among biologists born in Kazakhstan, Ken Alibek ranks 1. 

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