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BIOLOGIST

Stanley B. Prusiner

1942 - Today

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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

Among biologists, Stanley B. Prusiner ranks 60 out of 841Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Stanley B. Prusiner ranks 54Before 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.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stanley B. Prusiner ranks 754 out of 18,182Before 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).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Stanley B. Prusiner ranks 6Before 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).