PHYSICIST

Seymour Benzer

1921 - 2007

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Seymour Benzer (October 15, 1921 – November 30, 2007) was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. His career began during the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, and he eventually rose to prominence in the fields of molecular and behavioral genetics. He led a productive genetics research lab both at Purdue University and as the James G. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seymour Benzer has received more than 193,783 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Seymour Benzer is the 735th most popular physicist (down from 703rd in 2019), the 8,811th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,940th in 2019) and the 162nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Seymour Benzer ranks 735 out of 851. Before him are Julian Barbour, C. R. Hagen, Joseph Polchinski, Walter Gordon, Raja Ramanna, and Derek J. de Solla Price. After him are John Aitken, Gersh Budker, Alan Cottrell, Bernard Lovell, Paul Corkum, and Hubert Curien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Seymour Benzer ranks 377. Before him are Lloyd Bentsen, Mamie Till, Petter Hugsted, Regina Bianchi, Pancho Segura, and Prvoslav Mihajlović. After him are Sam Tingle, Giuseppe Moro, Julia Hartwig, Yevgeni Babich, Kjell Rosén, and Al Pease. Among people deceased in 2007, Seymour Benzer ranks 334. Before him are José Antonio Roca, Dragutin Tadijanović, Joseph Nérette, Dmitri Prigov, Muhammad Osman Said, and Melville Shavelson. After him are Juan Valdivieso, Aleksandr Dedyushko, Bruce Bennett, Ulrich Plenzdorf, Tamara Nosova, and Grethe Kausland.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Seymour Benzer ranks 8,811 out of 20,380. Before him are Edwin Foster Coddington (1870), Austin Butler (1991), Garrett Morris (1937), Edith Abbott (1876), Frederick Moloney (1882), and David Buss (1953). After him are Herman Groman (1882), Peter Berg (1962), Dave Farrell (1977), Elle Fanning (1998), Robert Bly (1926), and Elizabeth Ashley (1939).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Seymour Benzer ranks 162. Before him are Lisa Randall (1962), Arthur Wightman (1922), Howard P. Robertson (1903), Harvey Fletcher (1884), C. R. Hagen (1937), and Joseph Polchinski (1954). After him are William Stanley Jr. (1858), Frank Benford (1883), Conyers Herring (1914), Robert Marshak (1916), Sidney Coleman (1937), and Robert Bacher (1905).

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