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Robert Gallo

1937 - Today

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Robert Charles Gallo (; born March 23, 1937) is an American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in establishing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and in the development of the HIV blood test, and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research. Gallo is the director and co-founder of the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, established in 1996 in a partnership including the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Gallo has received more than 1,180,080 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Robert Gallo is the 366th most popular biologist (down from 206th in 2019), the 3,341st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,181st in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Gallo ranks 366 out of 1,097. Before him are William Jackson Hooker, Pierre Edmond Boissier, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Arthur Tansley, John Gould, and Karl Koch. After him are John Hughlings Jackson, Georg Joseph Kamel, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Eugen Fischer, Daniel Solander, and Johann Jakob von Tschudi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Robert Gallo ranks 195. Before him are Gustavo Noboa, Barbara Babcock, Maryan Wisniewski, Eero Mäntyranta, Richard Jordan, and Monica Zetterlund. After him are Dick Dale, Valentin Rasputin, Vadim Bakatin, Colin Renfrew, Antonio Rattín, and Chandrashekhara Kambara.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Gallo ranks 3,341 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Welker (1946), Eric Carle (1929), Fred Willard (1939), Marcus Miller (1959), Ice Cube (1969), and Lon Chaney (1883). After him are Walter Hunt (1796), Jeffrey Hunter (1926), Scatman Crothers (1910), Wilson Pickett (1941), Hill Harper (1966), and Lindsay Lohan (1986).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Robert Gallo ranks 64. Before him are George Ord (1781), Craig Venter (1946), Esther Lederberg (1922), Wilder Penfield (1891), Andrew Fire (1959), and Joel Asaph Allen (1838). After him are Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), Luther Burbank (1849), Eugene Odum (1913), Robert Sapolsky (1957), and Aldo Leopold (1887).

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