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Bruce Alberts

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Bruce Michael Alberts (born April 14, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American biochemist and the Emeritus Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education at the University of California, San Francisco. He has done important work studying the protein complexes which enable chromosome replication when living cells divide. He is known as an original author of the "canonical, influential, and best-selling scientific textbook" Molecular Biology of the Cell, and served as Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine. He was awarded the National Medal of Science for "intellectual leadership and experimental innovation in the field of DNA replication, and for unparalleled dedication to improving science education and promoting science-based public policy" in 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bruce Alberts is the 548th most popular chemist (up from 550th in 2019), the 8,747th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,445th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Bruce Alberts ranks 548 out of 602. Before him are Robin Hill, Max Bodenstein, Takamine Jōkichi, Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov, Nikodem Caro, and Frederick G. Donnan. After him are Hans Goldschmidt, John Roebuck, Lev Chugaev, Emma P. Carr, Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, and Florence B. Seibert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Bruce Alberts ranks 474. Before him are John Smith, Gyula Rákosi, Omar Caetano, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Marina Ratner, and Aleksei Petrenko. After him are Franco Luambo, Isidoro Díaz, Porter Goss, Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Betty Missiego, and Jerry Rubin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bruce Alberts ranks 8,749 out of 20,380. Before him are Bob Richards (1926), Lana Parrilla (1977), Andy Devine (1905), Richard Kelly (1975), Hugh O'Brian (1925), and Rand Brooks (1918). After him are Harold Solomon (1952), Ruth Chatterton (1892), Charles Melton (1991), Richard Henry Lee (1732), Louise Lasser (1939), and Missy Elliott (1971).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Bruce Alberts ranks 96. Before him are Bruce Ames (1928), Michael Behe (1952), Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), Robert Jarvik (1946), Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925), and Mary L. Good (1931). After him are Emma P. Carr (1880), Florence B. Seibert (1897), Edith M. Flanigen (1929), Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), Anna J. Harrison (1912), and Wallace Smith Broecker (1931).

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