CHEMIST

Phoebus Levene

1869 - 1940

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Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene (25 February 1869 – 6 September 1940) was a Russian-born American biochemist who studied the structure and function of nucleic acids. He characterized the different forms of nucleic acid, DNA from RNA, and found that DNA contained adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine, deoxyribose, and a phosphate group. He was born into a Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) family as Fishel Rostropovich Levin in the town of Žagarė in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, but grew up in St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Phoebus Levene has received more than 174,776 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Phoebus Levene is the 468th most popular chemist (down from 407th in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 94th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Lithuanian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Phoebus Levene ranks 468 out of 602. Before him are Takamine Jōkichi, Zdenko Hans Skraup, Isabella Karle, Johan Kjeldahl, James Smithson, and William Nicholson. After him are Gerhard Schrader, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Pierre Adet, Peter Woulfe, Robert Havemann, and Archibald Scott Couper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Phoebus Levene ranks 118. Before him are Wilhelm Heye, Ellen Thesleff, Rihard Jakopič, Bhagwan Das, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, and Joshua Pim. After him are Yervant Odian, Sergey Chaplygin, Harald Sohlberg, Henry Wood, Carlo Airoldi, and Levon Shant. Among people deceased in 1940, Phoebus Levene ranks 129. Before him are Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, Pierre Marie, Gaston Billotte, Heinrich Kayser, Charles de Broqueville, and Albert Richter. After him are Nikola Ivanov, Adam Zamenhof, Gheorghe Argeșanu, Einar Benediktsson, Otto Toeplitz, and Agnes Ayres.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Phoebus Levene ranks 131 out of 328. Before him are Maironis (1862), Steponas Darius (1896), Žemaitė (1845), Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873), Algirdas Butkevičius (1958), and Jonas Staugaitis (1868). After him are Silvestras Žukauskas (1860), Donald Kagan (1932), Grigory Gershuni (1870), Emil Młynarski (1870), Stanisław Narutowicz (1862), and Źmitrok Biadula (1886).

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Among CHEMISTS In Lithuania

Among chemists born in Lithuania, Phoebus Levene ranks 3. Before him are Aaron Klug (1926), and Wilfrid Voynich (1865).

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