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Ben Barres

1954 - 2017

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Benjamin Barres (September 13, 1954 – December 27, 2017) was an American neurobiologist at Stanford University. His research focused on the interaction between neurons and glial cells in the nervous system. Beginning in 2008, he was chair of the Neurobiology Department at Stanford University School of Medicine. He transitioned to male in 1997, and became the first openly transgender scientist in the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ben Barres is the 1,084th most popular biologist (up from 1,088th in 2024), the 14,955th most popular biography from United States (up from 15,792nd in 2019) and the 187th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ben Barres ranks 1,084 out of 1,097. Before her are Gita Ramjee, Peter Dodson, Xu Xing, Huda Zoghbi, Jill Bolte Taylor, and George Don. After her are Neil Shubin, Suzanne Simard, Christian Drosten, Cristina Garmendia, David Bellamy, and Peter Piot.

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Among people born in 1954, Ben Barres ranks 702. Before her are Beverley Whitfield, Noureddine Kourichi, Lloyd Blankfein, Huda Zoghbi, Gregory C. Johnson, and Julio César Jiménez. After her are Silvia Chivás, Jerry Moran, Ken Olin, Alvan Adams, Gale Norton, and Abida Parveen. Among people deceased in 2017, Ben Barres ranks 644. Before her are Bruce Forsyth, Vasily Kudinov, Yurizan Beltran, Ann Wedgeworth, and František Rajtoral. After her are Donna Ares, Dirk Hafemeister, Dick Gregory, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, Marek Ostrowski, Edith Windsor, and Yash Pal.

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Ben Barres ranks 187. Before her are Fanny Hesse (1850), Susan Lindquist (1949), Jerry Coyne (1949), Joan A. Steitz (1941), Peter Dodson (1946), and Jill Bolte Taylor (1959). After her are Neil Shubin (1960), PZ Myers (1957), Gretchen Daily (1964), Maria Van Kerkhove (1977), Sean B. Carroll (1960), and David Reich (1974).

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