BIOLOGIST

Peter Duesberg

1936 - Today

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Peter Heinz Hermann Duesberg (born December 2, 1936) is a German-American molecular biologist and a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his early research into the genetic aspects of cancer. He is a proponent of AIDS denialism, the claim that HIV does not cause AIDS. Duesberg received acclaim early in his career for research on oncogenes and cancer. With Peter K. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Duesberg has received more than 469,011 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Duesberg is the 779th most popular biologist, the 4,758th most popular biography from Germany and the 167th most popular German Biologist.

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  • 470k

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  • 54.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Peter Duesberg ranks 779 out of 1,097. Before him are Alfred G. Knudson, Hipólito Ruiz López, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Charlotte Auerbach, Joseph Banks Rhine, and Louisa Bolus. After him are Paul R. Ehrlich, Henry Baker, Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, Aharon Katzir, Frédéric de Lafresnaye, and Sabin Berthelot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Peter Duesberg ranks 399. Before him are Susan Kohner, Jean-Claude Turcotte, Jack Lousma, Alla Demidova, Paolo Barison, and C. Gordon Fullerton. After him are Martin Gilbert, Sergo Kotrikadze, Norberto Menéndez, Tony Lo Bianco, Lawrence Gordon, and James Stacy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Duesberg ranks 4,758 out of 7,253. Before him are Christoph Höhne (1941), Chris Roberts (1944), Heinrich Zschokke (1771), Joseph Hergenröther (1824), Hannelore Schroth (1922), and Edgar Reinhardt (1914). After him are Peter Schreyer (1953), Ellen Allien (1968), Princess Marie of Hanover (1849), Katja Riemann (1963), Carl Ebert (1887), and Ursula Franklin (1921).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Peter Duesberg ranks 167. Before him are Wilhelm Weinberg (1862), Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766), August W. Eichler (1839), Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768), Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), and Charlotte Auerbach (1899). After him are Ernst Ahl (1898), Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808), Amalie Dietrich (1821), Johann Christoph Wendland (1755), Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus (1835), and Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829).

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