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Anthony Fauci

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Anthony Stephen Fauci ( FOW-chee; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022. Fauci was one of the world's most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals from 1983 to 2002. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for his work on the AIDS relief program PEPFAR. Fauci received his undergraduate education at the College of the Holy Cross and his Doctor of Medicine from Cornell University. As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fauci served the American public health sector for more than fifty years and has acted as an advisor to every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anthony Fauci is the 11th most popular physician (up from 345th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,183rd in 2019) and the most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Anthony Fauci ranks 11 out of 726Before him are Robert Koch, Florence Nightingale, Basil of Caesarea, L. L. Zamenhof, Joseph Lister, and Edward Jenner. After him are Albert Schweitzer, Andreas Vesalius, Edgar Adrian, Ignaz Semmelweis, William Harvey, and Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Anthony Fauci ranks 10Before him are Bruce Lee, John Lennon, Tom Jones, Saparmurat Niyazov, Wangari Maathai, and Bartholomew I of Constantinople. After him are Chuck Norris, Brian Josephson, Zodiac Killer, Constantine II of Greece, Annie Ernaux, and Nursultan Nazarbayev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anthony Fauci ranks 101 out of 20,380Before him are Gene Hackman (1930), Jeff Bezos (1964), Barack Obama (1961), Morgan Freeman (1937), Jack Nicholson (1937), and Abraham Maslow (1908). After him are Dustin Hoffman (1937), Theodore Roosevelt (1858), Charles H. Townes (1915), Bernie Madoff (1938), Richard Stallman (1953), and Louis Armstrong (1901).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Anthony Fauci ranks 1After him are Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Joseph Murray (1919), William P. Murphy (1892), Harvey Cushing (1869), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), George Minot (1885), Michael DeBakey (1908), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), Stanley Cohen (1922), and Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925).