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Bruce Beutler

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Bruce Alan Beutler ( BOYT-lər; born December 29, 1957) is an American immunologist and geneticist. Together with Jules A. Hoffmann, he received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for "discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity." Beutler discovered the long-elusive receptor for lipopolysaccharide (LPS; also known as endotoxin). He did so by identifying spontaneous mutations in the gene coding for mouse Toll-like receptor 4 (Tlr4) in two unrelated strains of LPS-refractory mice and proving they were responsible for that phenotype. Subsequently, and chiefly through the work of Shizuo Akira, other TLRs were shown to detect signature molecules of most infectious microbes, in each case triggering an innate immune response. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bruce Beutler is the 194th most popular biologist (up from 320th in 2019), the 1,656th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,998th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Biologist. Learn more about Bruce Beutler's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Bruce Beutler ranks 194 out of 1,097. Before him are Anna Atkins, Julius Richard Petri, Julian Huxley, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Alexander Georg von Bunge, and Carl Linnaeus the Younger. After him are Jack Horner, Walther Flemming, Michel Adanson, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Hermann Schlegel, and Joseph Banks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Bruce Beutler ranks 42. Before him are Spike Lee, Dani Rodrik, Peter North, Stefan Löfven, Kelly McGillis, and Rumiko Takahashi. After him are Masayoshi Son, Ai Weiwei, Ivo Josipović, Rinat Dasayev, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, and Kevin McHale.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bruce Beutler ranks 1,656 out of 20,380. Before him are Brian Thompson (1959), Murray Bookchin (1921), Irving Stone (1903), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933), Danielle Steel (1947), and Timothy Leary (1920). After him are Jack Horner (1946), Bob Kane (1915), Edwin G. Krebs (1918), Steven Chu (1948), Jeff Bennett (1962), and Aaron Burr (1756).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Bruce Beutler ranks 37. Before him are Nettie Stevens (1861), George Davis Snell (1903), Leland H. Hartwell (1939), Norman Borlaug (1914), Carl Woese (1928), and Paul Greengard (1925). After him are Jack Horner (1946), George C. Williams (1926), George Wald (1906), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), J. Michael Bishop (1936), and James Dwight Dana (1813).

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