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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 181,992 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Renato Dulbecco is the 167th most popular biologist (down from 156th in 2019), the 1,432nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,433rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Italian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Renato Dulbecco ranks 167 out of 841. Before him are Anna Atkins, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Peter Medawar, Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann, and César Milstein. After him are Louis Agassiz, Michael Houghton, Temple Grandin, John B. Calhoun, Hans Driesch, and Wilbur Scoville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Renato Dulbecco ranks 56. Before him are Rafael Kubelík, William Westmoreland, Agostino Casaroli, Francisco da Costa Gomes, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, and James Van Allen. After him are María Félix, Lilli Palmer, Jan Karski, Unity Mitford, Kurt Franz, and Creighton Abrams. Among people deceased in 2012, Renato Dulbecco ranks 68. Before him are Herbert Lom, Paddy Roy Bates, Chris Marker, Miguel de la Madrid, Rauf Denktaş, and Helmut Haller. After him are Paul L. Smith, Sergio Oliva, Chaleo Yoovidhya, David Kelly, Bingu wa Mutharika, and Teófilo Stevenson.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Renato Dulbecco ranks 1,432 out of 4,668. Before him are Vittorio Alfieri (1749), Ignazio Silone (1900), Giovanni Ferrari (1907), Marcus Tullius Tiro (-103), Philippe Buonarroti (1761), and Antonio Segni (1891). After him are Pietro II Orseolo (961), Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma (1889), Milo Manara (1945), Andrea Cesalpino (1519), Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta (1841), and Tullio Levi-Civita (1873).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Italy

Among biologists born in Italy, Renato Dulbecco ranks 8. Before him are Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522), Gabriele Falloppio (1523), Giovanni Sartori (1924), Salvador Luria (1912), Mario Capecchi (1937), and Mikhail Tsvet (1872). After him are Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922), Odoardo Beccari (1843), Carlo Allioni (1728), Giuseppe Acerbi (1773), Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845), and Michele Tenore (1780).

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