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. 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 (D. 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 224,962 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Stanley B. Prusiner is the 100th most popular chemist (up from 136th in 2019), the 754th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,051st in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Chemist.
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 chemists, Stanley B. Prusiner ranks 100 out of 509. Before him are Paul Hermann Müller, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Manfred Eigen, Norman Haworth, Vladimir Prelog, and Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted. After him are Gerhard Ertl, Yves Chauvin, Willard Libby, James B. Sumner, John Newlands, and Henry Hallett Dale.
1899 - 1965
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 94
1895 - 1973
HPI: 64.28
Rank: 95
1927 - 2019
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 96
1883 - 1950
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 97
1906 - 1998
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 98
1879 - 1947
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 99
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 100
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 101
1930 - 2015
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 102
1908 - 1980
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 103
1887 - 1955
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 104
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 105
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 106
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
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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 chemists born in United States, Stanley B. Prusiner ranks 14. Before him are John Howard Northrop (1891), Theodore William Richards (1868), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), and Harold Urey (1893). After him are Willard Libby (1908), James B. Sumner (1887), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Stanford Moore (1913), William Howard Stein (1911), and Glenn T. Seaborg (1912).
1891 - 1987
HPI: 65.98
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1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 9
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 10
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 11
1893 - 1986
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 12
1893 - 1981
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 13
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 14
1908 - 1980
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 15
1887 - 1955
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 16
1904 - 1971
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 17
1913 - 1982
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 18
1911 - 1980
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 19
1912 - 1999
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 20