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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 1,132,424 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Robert Gallo is the 207th most popular biologist (down from 190th in 2019), the 2,183rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,932nd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Gallo ranks 207 out of 841. Before him are Charles M. Rice, Henrietta Lacks, Waldemar Haffkine, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Jérôme Lejeune, and Albert von Kölliker. After him are Hideyo Noguchi, Adam Afzelius, David Baltimore, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, and Georges J. F. Köhler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Robert Gallo ranks 108. Before him are Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, Ange-Félix Patassé, Kōichirō Matsuura, Nikolai Kapustin, Rubin Carter, and Peter Burke. After him are Tsukasa Hosaka, Rifaat al-Assad, Joseph Kobzon, Steven Berkoff, Hibari Misora, and Daniel McFadden.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Gallo ranks 2,183 out of 18,182. Before him are Alyssa Milano (1972), Tony Lip (1930), Peter Agre (1949), Henry J. Heinz (1844), Maria Mitchell (1818), and Neil Sedaka (1939). After him are Lisa Bonet (1967), Prescott Bush (1895), James Bowie (1796), Karen Uhlenbeck (1942), Kim Hunter (1922), and King C. Gillette (1855).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Robert Gallo ranks 42. Before him are George Wald (1906), George Smith (1941), Howard Martin Temin (1934), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Charles M. Rice (1952), and Henrietta Lacks (1920). After him are David Baltimore (1938), Michael Rosbash (1944), Michael W. Young (1949), Bruce Beutler (1957), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), and Craig Venter (1946).

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