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BIOLOGIST

René Dubos

1901 - 1982

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René Jules Dubos (February 20, 1901 – February 20, 1982) was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Dubos has received more than 106,027 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. René Dubos is the 478th most popular biologist, the 3,462nd most popular biography from France and the 68th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, René Dubos ranks 478 out of 841Before him are Joseph Paul Gaimard, Craig Mello, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Garrett Hardin, Petter Adolf Karsten, and Bertha Lutz. After him are Sébastien Vaillant, George Clifford III, Achille Valenciennes, Jean Cabanis, Aaron Aaronsohn, and Edmond Albius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, René Dubos ranks 167Before him are Elias Katz, Louis Boyer, Juan García Oliver, Daniel-Rops, Sekiryo Kaneda, and Gustav Knuth. After him are Umberto Caligaris, Yuliya Solntseva, Andrée Brunet, Willy Fritsch, Lisette Model, and Alberto Hurtado. Among people deceased in 1982, René Dubos ranks 139Before him are Ulla Jacobsson, Sultan al-Atrash, Lauri Virtanen, Juhan Aavik, Jean Effel, and Douglas Bader. After him are Giorgio Abetti, Alfredo Ovando Candía, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Konrad Wolf, Federico Moreno Torroba, and Vladimir Smirnov.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Dubos ranks 3,462 out of 6,011Before him are Suzanne Flon (1918), Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807), Louis de Buade de Frontenac (1622), Michel Audiard (1920), Francis Cabrel (1953), and François de Laval (1623). After him are Roger Carel (1927), Sébastien Vaillant (1669), Chlodulf of Metz (null), Henry Bataille (1872), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), and Achille Valenciennes (1794).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, René Dubos ranks 68Before him are Pierre Magnol (1638), Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797), Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776), Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793), and Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752). After him are Sébastien Vaillant (1669), Achille Valenciennes (1794), Jules Émile Planchon (1823), Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), and Bernard Heuvelmans (1916).