BIOLOGIST

Alfred Hershey

1908 - 1997

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Alfred Day Hershey (December 4, 1908 – May 22, 1997) was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Hershey is the 91st most popular biologist (up from 111th in 2019), the 826th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,045th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Biologist.

Alfred Hershey is most famous for inventing the Hershey Kiss.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alfred Hershey ranks 91 out of 1,097. Before him are Hans Spemann, Herman Boerhaave, August Weismann, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Katherine Oppenheimer, and Clair Cameron Patterson. After him are Ernst Mayr, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Philip Sclater, Aaron Ciechanover, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and Pierre André Latreille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Alfred Hershey ranks 38. Before him are Michael DeBakey, Franz Stangl, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Joseph Rotblat, Nelson Rockefeller, and Manoel de Oliveira. After him are Willard Libby, David Lean, Victor Weisskopf, Tameo Ide, Joseph McCarthy, and Werner von Haeften. Among people deceased in 1997, Alfred Hershey ranks 32. Before him are Isaiah Berlin, Hans Eysenck, Bohumil Hrabal, Roy Lichtenstein, Fred Zinnemann, and Edward Mills Purcell. After him are Allen Ginsberg, Aldo Rossi, Helenio Herrera, John Eccles, Chaim Herzog, and Dora Maar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred Hershey ranks 826 out of 20,380. Before him are Duke Ellington (1899), Robert Johnson (1911), Melvin Schwartz (1932), Brandon Lee (1965), Willis Carrier (1876), and Anastacia (1968). After him are Joe DiMaggio (1914), Danny Glover (1946), Ruth Benedict (1887), Joan Crawford (1904), G. W. Bailey (1944), and Ray Liotta (1954).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Alfred Hershey ranks 12. Before him are Barbara McClintock (1902), Rachel Carson (1907), Irwin Rose (1926), Linda B. Buck (1947), Dian Fossey (1932), and Clair Cameron Patterson (1922). After him are Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), John B. Calhoun (1917), Sylvia Earle (1935), John Hopfield (1933), and Robert Whittaker (1920).

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