1869 - 1940
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. Petersburg. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Phoebus Levene has received more than 144,071 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Phoebus Levene is the 408th most popular chemist (up from 420th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 88th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Lithuanian Chemist.
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Among chemists, Phoebus Levene ranks 408 out of 509. Before him are Georges Urbain, James Smithson, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Joseph Achille Le Bel, and John Walker. After him are Adolph Frank, Gaston Tissandier, Asima Chatterjee, Morris Travers, Albert Niemann, and Roderick MacKinnon.
1872 - 1938
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 402
1765 - 1829
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 403
1954 - Present
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 404
1762 - 1807
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 405
1847 - 1930
HPI: 50.73
Rank: 406
1781 - 1859
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 407
1869 - 1940
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 408
1834 - 1916
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 409
1843 - 1899
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 410
1917 - 2006
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 411
1872 - 1961
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 412
1834 - 1861
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 413
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.37
Rank: 414
Among people born in 1869, Phoebus Levene ranks 92. Before him are Léon Brunschvicg, Slobodan Jovanović, Robbie Ross, Kiến Phúc, Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria, and Boris Rosing. After him are Georgette Leblanc, Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Henry Carton de Wiart, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, Armas Järnefelt, and Edwin Lutyens. Among people deceased in 1940, Phoebus Levene ranks 105. Before him are Wehib Pasha, Mikhail Koshkin, Janusz Kusociński, Ernst Weiss, Janina Lewandowska, and Tom Mix. After him are Raymond Smith Dugan, Silvestre Revueltas, Fanny Brate, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Mikhail Koltsov, and Umberto Caligaris.
1869 - 1944
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 86
1869 - 1958
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 87
1869 - 1918
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 88
1869 - 1884
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 89
1869 - 1945
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 90
1869 - 1933
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 91
1869 - 1940
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 92
1869 - 1941
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 93
1869 - 1931
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 94
1869 - 1951
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 95
1869 - 1959
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 96
1869 - 1958
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 97
1869 - 1944
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 98
1877 - 1940
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 99
1898 - 1940
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 100
1907 - 1940
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 101
1882 - 1940
HPI: 50.66
Rank: 102
1908 - 1940
HPI: 50.65
Rank: 103
1880 - 1940
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 104
1869 - 1940
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 105
1878 - 1940
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 106
1899 - 1940
HPI: 50.45
Rank: 107
1861 - 1940
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 108
1884 - 1940
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 109
1898 - 1940
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 110
1901 - 1940
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 111
Among people born in Lithuania, Phoebus Levene ranks 96 out of 287. Before him are Raphael Kalinowski (1835), Oskar Minkowski (1858), Vlado Perlemuter (1904), Maironis (1862), Bernard Berenson (1865), and Gediminas Kirkilas (1951). After him are Šarūnas Jasikevičius (1976), Morta (1210), Maximilian Steinberg (1883), Mark Antokolsky (1843), Jacques Sernas (1925), and Yakov Smushkevich (1902).
1835 - 1907
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 90
1858 - 1931
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 91
1904 - 2002
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 92
1862 - 1932
HPI: 50.65
Rank: 93
1865 - 1959
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 94
1951 - Present
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 95
1869 - 1940
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 96
1976 - Present
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 97
1210 - 1260
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 98
1883 - 1946
HPI: 49.89
Rank: 99
1843 - 1902
HPI: 49.89
Rank: 100
1925 - 2015
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 101
1902 - 1941
HPI: 49.47
Rank: 102
Among chemists born in Lithuania, Phoebus Levene ranks 3. Before him are Wilfrid Voynich (1865) and Aaron Klug (1926).
1865 - 1930
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 1
1926 - 2018
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 2
1869 - 1940
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 3