CHEMIST

Wendell Meredith Stanley

1904 - 1971

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Wendell Meredith Stanley (August 16, 1904 – June 15, 1971) was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wendell Meredith Stanley has received more than 146,300 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Wendell Meredith Stanley is the 130th most popular chemist (down from 109th in 2019), the 804th most popular biography from United States (down from 782nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Chemist.

Wendell Meredith Stanley was most famous for his discovery of the cause of the disease known as sleeping sickness. Sleeping sickness is a parasitic disease that is transmitted by tsetse flies.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Wendell Meredith Stanley ranks 130 out of 602. Before him are Johan Gadolin, Clara Immerwahr, Dan Shechtman, Jean-Marie Lehn, Ignacy Mościcki, and Raymond Davis Jr.. After him are Lars Onsager, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, William Howard Stein, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, and Glenn T. Seaborg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Wendell Meredith Stanley ranks 36. Before him are Werner Forssmann, Antonín Novotný, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Gregory Bateson, Ernst Mayr, and Hans Morgenthau. After him are George F. Kennan, Alejo Carpentier, Lucile Randon, Willem de Kooning, Odilo Globočnik, and Joseph Campbell. Among people deceased in 1971, Wendell Meredith Stanley ranks 27. Before him are Franz Stangl, Gotthard Heinrici, François Duvalier, D. B. Cooper, Igor Tamm, and Lothar Rendulic. After him are Rudolf Abel, Jacobo Árbenz, Roy O. Disney, Marcel Dupré, Pier Angeli, and Violet Jessop.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wendell Meredith Stanley ranks 804 out of 20,380. Before him are Frances McDormand (1957), Harold Lasswell (1902), James Cronin (1931), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), and Ted Kennedy (1932). After him are Pat Morita (1932), Renée Zellweger (1969), Davy Crockett (1786), Robert Wagner (1930), Halle Berry (1966), and Robert E. Howard (1906).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Wendell Meredith Stanley ranks 19. Before him are Stanford Moore (1913), Paul Berg (1926), Harold Urey (1893), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Robert Burns Woodward (1917), and Raymond Davis Jr. (1914). After him are William Howard Stein (1911), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), Willard Libby (1908), Christian B. Anfinsen (1916), Arthur Kornberg (1918), and Julius Axelrod (1912).

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