1942 - Today
Stanley Ben Prusiner (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist. He is the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein, considered by many as a heretical idea when first proposed. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for prion research developed by him and his team of experts (David E. Garfin, D. P. Stites, W. J. Hadlow, C. M. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanley B. Prusiner has received more than 239,254 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Stanley B. Prusiner is the 60th most popular biologist (up from 136th in 2019), the 754th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,051st in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Biologist.
Stanley B. Prusiner is most famous for his discovery of prions. Prions are a type of protein that can be found in the brain, spinal cord, and other parts of the nervous system. They are not alive, but they can cause disease.
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Among biologists, Stanley B. Prusiner ranks 60 out of 841. Before him are Adelbert von Chamisso, Jean-Henri Fabre, François Jacob, Erasmus Darwin, Albert Claude, and Hugo Theorell. After him are Ernst Mayr, Hermann Joseph Muller, Linda B. Buck, George Beadle, Max Theiler, and John Edward Gray.
1781 - 1838
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 54
1823 - 1915
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 55
1920 - 2013
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 56
1731 - 1802
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 57
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 58
1903 - 1982
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 59
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 60
1904 - 2005
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 61
1890 - 1967
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 62
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 63
1903 - 1989
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 64
1899 - 1972
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 65
1800 - 1875
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 66
Among people born in 1942, Stanley B. Prusiner ranks 54. Before him are Françoise Dorléac, Věra Čáslavská, Giacomo Agostini, Carlos Reutemann, Tobin Bell, and Tony Buzan. After him are Manuel Castells, Maurizio Pollini, Jacob Zuma, Martin Seligman, Arto Paasilinna, and Bob Hoskins.
1942 - 1967
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 48
1942 - 2016
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 49
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 50
1942 - 2021
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 51
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 52
1942 - 2019
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 53
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 54
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 55
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 56
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 57
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 58
1942 - 2018
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 59
1942 - 2014
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 60
Among people born in United States, Stanley B. Prusiner ranks 754 out of 18,182. Before him are Alice Cooper (1948), Buckminster Fuller (1895), Mark Hamill (1951), Marvin Gaye (1939), Tobin Bell (1942), and H. L. Mencken (1880). After him are John Searle (1932), Woody Harrelson (1961), Steve Reich (1936), Matthew McConaughey (1969), Larry Ellison (1944), and Michael Rockefeller (1938).
1948 - Present
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 748
1895 - 1983
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 749
1951 - Present
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 750
1939 - 1984
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 751
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 752
1880 - 1956
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 753
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 754
1932 - Present
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 755
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 756
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 757
1969 - Present
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 758
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 759
1938 - 1963
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 760
Among biologists born in United States, Stanley B. Prusiner ranks 6. Before him are James Watson (1928), Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), Rachel Carson (1907), Barbara McClintock (1902), and Dian Fossey (1932). After him are Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), Linda B. Buck (1947), George Beadle (1903), John Franklin Enders (1897), Lynn Margulis (1938), and Irwin Rose (1926).
1928 - Present
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 1
1866 - 1945
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 2
1907 - 1964
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 3
1902 - 1992
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 4
1932 - 1985
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 5
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 6
1890 - 1967
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 8
1903 - 1989
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 9
1897 - 1985
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 10
1938 - 2011
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 11
1926 - 2015
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 12