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Sam Harris

1967 - Today

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Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion, and is known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett.Harris's first book, The End of Faith (2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 33 weeks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sam Harris has received more than 8,135,880 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Sam Harris is the 769th most popular biologist (down from 748th in 2019), the 7,375th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,356th in 2019) and the 105th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 45.28

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  • 48

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  • 2.58

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  • 5.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sam Harris ranks 769 out of 841Before him are Michel Félix Dunal, Carl Skottsberg, Palisot de Beauvois, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling, and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez. After him are Amalie Dietrich, Wilhelm Weinberg, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Lilian Gibbs, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, and Thomas Thomson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Sam Harris ranks 208Before him are José Padilha, Mohamed Nasheed, Edu Manga, Tom Kristensen, Tommy Gunn, and John Romero. After him are Nathalie Cardone, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Junkie XL, Mireya Luis, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yukito Kishiro.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sam Harris ranks 7,375 out of 18,182Before him are Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Robert Cray (1953), Larry Linville (1939), John Romero (1967), Pat Crawford Brown (1929), and Laura La Plante (1904). After him are Albina Osipowich (1911), CM Punk (1978), J. B. Lenoir (1929), Fischer Black (1938), Memphis Minnie (1897), and Jacob L. Devers (1887).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Sam Harris ranks 105Before him are Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835), Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890), Robert Trivers (1943), Albert Charles Smith (1906), Mary-Claire King (1946), and Stanley Norman Cohen (1935). After him are Sereno Watson (1826), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Judah Folkman (1933), Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823), John Lawrence LeConte (1825), and Robert Weinberg (1942).

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