1869 - 1940
Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene (25 February 1869 – 6 September 1940) was an 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 132,342 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Phoebus Levene is the 420th most popular chemist (down from 416th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 79th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Lithuanian Chemist.
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Among chemists, Phoebus Levene ranks 420 out of 510. Before him are Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Kamala Sohonie, Archibald Scott Couper, Peter Woulfe, Maclyn McCarty, and Hans Goldschmidt. After him are Edward Charles Howard, Jacques-Louis Soret, Nikolay Zinin, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Johann Schweigger, and Eugène-Anatole Demarçay.
1762 - 1807
HPI: 61.14
Rank: 414
1912 - 1998
HPI: 61.14
Rank: 415
1831 - 1892
HPI: 61.01
Rank: 416
1727 - 1803
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 417
1911 - 2005
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 418
1861 - 1923
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 419
1869 - 1940
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 420
1774 - 1816
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 421
1827 - 1890
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 422
1812 - 1880
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 423
1838 - 1921
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 424
1779 - 1857
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 425
1852 - 1903
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 426
Among people born in 1869, Phoebus Levene ranks 101. Before him are Dmitri Egorov, Hendrikus Colijn, Gerrit Smith Miller, Edwin Lutyens, Mary Agnes Chase, and Robert W. Paul. After him are Henry Wood, Marcel Cachin, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Johannes Linnankoski, Augusto Tasso Fragoso, and August Blom. Among people deceased in 1940, Phoebus Levene ranks 110. Before him are Alicia Boole Stott, Albin Lermusiaux, Udham Singh, Karimeh Abbud, Gheorghe Argeșanu, and Maciej Rataj. After him are Kamal-ol-molk, Piero Toscani, Sam Eyde, Juan Carreño, Charley Chase, and Janina Lewandowska.
1869 - 1931
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 95
1869 - 1944
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 96
1869 - 1956
HPI: 61.31
Rank: 97
1869 - 1944
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 98
1869 - 1963
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 99
1869 - 1943
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 100
1869 - 1940
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 101
1869 - 1944
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 102
1869 - 1958
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 103
1869 - 1966
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 104
1869 - 1913
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 105
1869 - 1945
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 106
1869 - 1947
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 107
1860 - 1940
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 104
1874 - 1940
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 105
1899 - 1940
HPI: 61.21
Rank: 106
1893 - 1940
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 107
1883 - 1940
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 108
1884 - 1940
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 109
1869 - 1940
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 110
1848 - 1940
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 111
1904 - 1940
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 112
1866 - 1940
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 113
1909 - 1940
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 114
1893 - 1940
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 115
1908 - 1940
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 116
Among people born in Lithuania, Phoebus Levene ranks 88 out of 235. Before him are Morta (1210), Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (1871), Modestas Paulauskas (1945), Mark Antokolsky (1843), Grigory Gershuni (1870), and Francišak Bahuševič (1840). After him are Maironis (1862), Antanas Baranauskas (1835), Mordecai Kaplan (1881), Sigitas Tamkevičius (1938), Šarūnas Jasikevičius (1976), and Žemaitė (1845).
1210 - 1260
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 82
1871 - 1927
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 83
1945 - Present
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 84
1843 - 1902
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 85
1870 - Present
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 86
1840 - 1900
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 87
1869 - 1940
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 88
1862 - 1932
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 89
1835 - 1902
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 90
1881 - 1983
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 91
1938 - Present
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 92
1976 - Present
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 93
1845 - 1921
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 94
Among chemists born in Lithuania, Phoebus Levene ranks 3. Before him are Wilfrid Voynich (1865) and Aaron Klug (1926).
1865 - 1930
HPI: 69.38
Rank: 1
1926 - 2018
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 2
1869 - 1940
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 3