1929 - Today
Werner Arber (born 3 June 1929 in Gränichen, Aargau) is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner Arber has received more than 146,728 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Werner Arber is the 91st most popular biologist (down from 88th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 88th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Biologist.
Werner Arber is most famous for his discovery of restriction enzymes in 1970.
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Among biologists, Werner Arber ranks 91 out of 841. Before him are Carolus Clusius, Alfred Hershey, Elizabeth Blackburn, E. O. Wilson, André Michel Lwoff, and John Gurdon. After him are Bernard Katz, Ibn al-Baitar, William Carey, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Thomas Huckle Weller, and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin.
1525 - 1609
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 85
1908 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 86
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 87
1929 - 2021
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 88
1902 - 1994
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 89
1933 - Present
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 90
1929 - Present
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 91
1911 - 2003
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 92
1197 - 1248
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 93
1761 - 1834
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 94
1656 - 1708
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 95
1915 - 2008
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 96
1855 - 1935
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 97
Among people born in 1929, Werner Arber ranks 66. Before him are Mohamed Al-Fayed, E. O. Wilson, Milorad Pavić, Pierre Brice, Gudrun Burwitz, and Stirling Moss. After him are Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, Violeta Chamorro, Paul Lauterbur, Bruno Cremer, George Stinney, and Lennart Johansson.
1929 - 2023
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 60
1929 - 2021
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 61
1929 - 2009
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 62
1929 - 2015
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 63
1929 - 2018
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 64
1929 - 2020
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 65
1929 - Present
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 66
1929 - 2008
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 67
1929 - Present
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 68
1929 - 2007
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 69
1929 - 2010
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 70
1929 - 1944
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 71
1929 - 2019
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 72
Among people born in Switzerland, Werner Arber ranks 83 out of 876. Before him are K. Alex Müller (1927), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), Mario Botta (1943), and Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980). After him are Jean Tinguely (1925), Louis, Duke of Savoy (1413), Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), Brother Roger (1915), Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), and Kurt Wüthrich (1938).
1927 - 2023
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 77
1904 - 1980
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 78
1741 - 1801
HPI: 62.71
Rank: 79
1864 - 1945
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 80
1943 - Present
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 81
980 - 1047
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 82
1929 - Present
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 83
1925 - 1991
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 84
1413 - 1465
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 85
1747 - 1823
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 86
1915 - 2005
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 87
1815 - 1887
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 88
1938 - Present
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 89
Among biologists born in Switzerland, Werner Arber ranks 3. Before him are Conrad Gessner (1516) and Daniel Bovet (1907). After him are Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Charles Bonnet (1720), Louis Agassiz (1807), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Johann Bauhin (1541), and Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810).
1516 - 1565
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 1
1907 - 1992
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 2
1929 - Present
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 3
1778 - 1841
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 4
1560 - 1624
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 5
1720 - 1793
HPI: 59.85
Rank: 6
1807 - 1873
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 7
1817 - 1905
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 8
1884 - 1980
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 9
1742 - 1795
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 10
1541 - 1613
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 11
1810 - 1885
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 12