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Thomas C. Südhof

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Thomas Christian Südhof (German pronunciation: [ˈtoːmas ˈzyːtˌhoːf] ; born December 22, 1955), ForMemRS, is a German-American biochemist known for his study of synaptic transmission. Currently, he is a professor in the school of medicine in the department of molecular and cellular physiology, and by courtesy in neurology, and in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. Südhof, James Rothman and Randy Schekman are the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates for their work on vesicle trafficking. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas C. Südhof has received more than 217,521 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Thomas C. Südhof is the 332nd most popular chemist (up from 356th in 2019), the 2,144th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,621st in 2019) and the 57th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Thomas C. Südhof ranks 332 out of 602. Before him are Frances Arnold, Victor Goldschmidt, François-Marie Raoult, Jean Stas, Eilhard Mitscherlich, and Édouard Herzen. After him are Fraser Stoddart, Otto Wichterle, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, and Anders Gustaf Ekeberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Thomas C. Südhof ranks 106. Before him are Jeff Daniels, Ángela Molina, Matthias Jabs, David Julius, Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, and Xander Berkeley. After him are Peter Gallagher, Miguel Ferrer, Simon Rattle, Vladimir Petrović, Eric Schmidt, and Siri Hustvedt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thomas C. Südhof ranks 2,144 out of 7,253. Before him are Sophia Eleonore of Saxony (1609), Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1564), Rachel Félix (1821), Hanns Kerrl (1887), Horst Hrubesch (1951), and Igor Mitoraj (1944). After him are Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1704), Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809), Michael Lippert (1897), Rudolf Rocker (1873), Horst-Dieter Höttges (1943), and John A. Roebling (1806).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Thomas C. Südhof ranks 57. Before him are Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), John Polanyi (1929), Leopold Gmelin (1788), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Clemens Winkler (1838), and Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794). After him are Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), Carl Reichenbach (1788), Viktor Meyer (1848), Otto Schott (1851), Hermann von Fehling (1812), and Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853).

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