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Michael Behe

1952 - Today

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Michael Joseph Behe ( BEE-hee; born January 18, 1952) is an American biochemist and an advocate of the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design (ID). Behe serves as professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and as a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He advocates for the validity of the argument for irreducible complexity (IC), which claims that some biochemical structures are too complex to be explained by known evolutionary mechanisms and are therefore probably the result of intelligent design. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Behe has received more than 436,444 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Behe is the 510th most popular chemist (down from 472nd in 2019), the 7,458th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,585th in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Michael Behe ranks 510 out of 602. Before him are Julius Wilbrand, Karol Olszewski, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Gustav Rose, Johannes Thiele, and Nina Andreyeva. After him are Alexander Nesmeyanov, Claudine Picardet, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Marc Delafontaine, Sergey Lebedev, and Rainer Ludwig Claisen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Michael Behe ranks 413. Before him are Didi Senft, Jim Wetherbee, Manuel Göttsching, David Richards, Didier Raoult, and Mustafa Cerić. After him are Jorge Luis Pinto, Brian Gottfried, David Garrison, Celia Imrie, Lydie Polfer, and Christine Estabrook.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Behe ranks 7,458 out of 20,380. Before him are Wayne Newton (1942), Nancy Wilson (1954), Dylan Walsh (1963), Gladys George (1904), Wendy O. Williams (1949), and Edie Adams (1927). After him are Hassler Whitney (1907), Philip Agee (1935), Dave Bing (1943), Saoirse Ronan (1994), Dennis Johnson (1954), and Lucy Parsons (1853).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Michael Behe ranks 87. Before him are Myrtle Bachelder (1908), James B. Conant (1893), Donella Meadows (1941), James Crafts (1839), Maclyn McCarty (1911), and Isabella Karle (1921). After him are Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), Karen Wetterhahn (1948), Robert Jarvik (1946), Wallace Smith Broecker (1931), Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), and Helen Murray Free (1923).

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