BIOLOGIST

Werner Arber

1929 - Today

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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 156,904 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Werner Arber is the 85th most popular biologist (up from 90th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 83rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Biologist.

Werner Arber is most famous for his discovery of restriction enzymes in 1970.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Werner Arber ranks 85 out of 1,097. Before him are Philip Miller, Ibn al-Baitar, Elizabeth Blackburn, Archibald Hill, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. After him are Stanley B. Prusiner, Ralph M. Steinman, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Erasmus Darwin, Aaron Ciechanover, and Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Werner Arber ranks 47. Before him are Graham Hill, Richard E. Taylor, Bruno Cremer, Milorad Pavić, Helmut Rahn, and Eric Kandel. After him are Bill Evans, Zoltán Czibor, Christa Wolf, Yevgeny Primakov, Gudrun Burwitz, and Karolos Papoulias.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Werner Arber ranks 77 out of 1,015. Before him are Peter Zumthor (1943), Domenico Fontana (1543), Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Alejo Carpentier (1904), and Sigismond Thalberg (1812). After him are Friedrich Miescher (1844), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Félix Vallotton (1865), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Max Frisch (1911), and Heinrich Wölfflin (1864).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Werner Arber ranks 4. Before him are Conrad Gessner (1516), Daniel Bovet (1907), and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778). After him are Louis Agassiz (1807), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Charles Bonnet (1720), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Carl Nägeli (1817), and Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884).

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