BIOLOGIST

Renato Dulbecco

1914 - 2012

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Renato Dulbecco ( dul-BEK-oh, Italian: [reˈnaːto dulˈbɛkko, -ˈbek-]; February 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012) was an Italian–American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells. He studied at the University of Turin under Giuseppe Levi, along with fellow students Salvador Luria and Rita Levi-Montalcini, who also moved to the U.S. with him and won Nobel prizes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Renato Dulbecco has received more than 193,176 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Renato Dulbecco is the 166th most popular biologist, the 1,364th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,428th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Renato Dulbecco ranks 166 out of 1,097. Before him are Michel Adanson, Charles Bonnet, Joshua Lederberg, Susumu Tonegawa, Robert Whittaker, and Johan Christian Fabricius. After him are Georges J. F. Köhler, Pierre André Latreille, Erik Acharius, César Milstein, Paul Greengard, and John Boyd Orr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Renato Dulbecco ranks 54. Before him are Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, Norman Borlaug, Adolfo Bioy Casares, William Westmoreland, Robert Wise, and Alan Hodgkin. After him are Shapour Bakhtiar, Akira Nozawa, James Van Allen, Francisco da Costa Gomes, Creighton Abrams, and Mario Bava. Among people deceased in 2012, Renato Dulbecco ranks 67. Before him are Chavela Vargas, Rodney King, Helmut Haller, Bingu wa Mutharika, Joseph Murray, and Harry Harrison. After him are Chaleo Yoovidhya, Chris Marker, David Kelly, Warda Al-Jazairia, Gustav Leonhardt, and Omar Suleiman.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Renato Dulbecco ranks 1,364 out of 5,161. Before him are Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (-49), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727), Carlo Gambino (1902), Liliana Cavani (1933), Alfredo Ferrari (1932), and Battista Farina (1893). After him are Walter Bonatti (1930), Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (1667), Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (1936), Musa of Parthia (-40), Franco Alfano (1875), and Claudio Magris (1939).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Italy

Among biologists born in Italy, Renato Dulbecco ranks 7. Before him are Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729), Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522), Gabriele Falloppio (1523), Giovanni Sartori (1924), Mario Capecchi (1937), and Salvador Luria (1912). After him are Giuseppe Acerbi (1773), Mikhail Tsvet (1872), Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922), Carlo Allioni (1728), Odoardo Beccari (1843), and Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845).

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