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BIOLOGIST

Ralph M. Steinman

1943 - 2011

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Ralph Marvin Steinman (January 14, 1943 – September 30, 2011) was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ralph M. Steinman has received more than 245,467 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Ralph M. Steinman is the 126th most popular biologist (down from 107th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Canada (down from 45th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Biologist.

Ralph M. Steinman was a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who discovered the dendritic cell and its role in the immune system.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ralph M. Steinman ranks 126 out of 841Before him are Norman Borlaug, Har Gobind Khorana, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Rudolf Weigl, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and Georg Wilhelm Steller. After him are Armand David, Gaspard Bauhin, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Aimé Bonpland, Martin Evans, and Edward B. Lewis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Ralph M. Steinman ranks 83Before him are Wolfgang Overath, Yohji Yamamoto, Arthur B. McDonald, Lucio Dalla, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, and Chevy Chase. After him are Johann Deisenhofer, Chantal Mouffe, Max Wright, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Holland Taylor, and Antonio Inoki. Among people deceased in 2011, Ralph M. Steinman ranks 58Before him are Ernesto Sabato, Leonora Carrington, Michael Gough, Har Gobind Khorana, Richard Hamilton, and Lucian Freud. After him are Roberts Blossom, Betty Ford, Pete Postlethwaite, Linda Christian, Richard Winters, and Dev Anand.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Ralph M. Steinman ranks 53 out of 1,350Before him are Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), Charles Taylor (1931), Elizabeth Arden (1878), Geneviève Bujold (1942), Arthur B. McDonald (1943), and Drake (1986). After him are James Randi (1928), Donald O. Hebb (1904), William Vickrey (1914), Pamela Anderson (1967), Glenn Ford (1916), and Maud Lewis (1903).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Canada

Among biologists born in Canada, Ralph M. Steinman ranks 1After him are John Murray (1841), David Suzuki (1936), Colin Munro MacLeod (1909), Robert H. MacArthur (1930), Peter Watts (1958), Severn Cullis-Suzuki (1979), Alice Wilson (1881), and Alice Eastwood (1859).