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Craig Mello

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Craig Cameron Mello (born October 18, 1960) is an American biologist and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998. Mello has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Craig Mello is the 352nd most popular biologist (up from 534th in 2019), the 3,065th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,785th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Craig Mello ranks 352 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Alexander Clerck, Friedrich Boie, Antonio José Cavanilles, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, and David Julius. After him are Moritz Wagner, Craig Venter, Daniel Solander, Theodore Gill, Henrietta Lacks, and Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Craig Mello ranks 103. Before him are Richard Ramirez, Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, Saif al-Adel, Sid Eudy, Mehmet Oz, and Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. After him are Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean, Melissa Leo, Johnny Briceño, Kevin Carter, Ersin Tatar, and Laurent Fignon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Craig Mello ranks 3,065 out of 20,380. Before him are Rami Malek (1981), Chris Pine (1980), Alvin Plantinga (1932), Hannibal Hamlin (1809), Lyman Spitzer (1914), and Alan Hale Jr. (1921). After him are Lin Shaye (1943), Al Martino (1927), Bill Duke (1943), Charles Eames (1907), Kate Millett (1934), and John W. Campbell (1910).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Craig Mello ranks 63. Before him are David Baltimore (1938), Carol W. Greider (1961), Charles M. Rice (1952), Brian Kobilka (1955), Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), and David Julius (1955). After him are Craig Venter (1946), Theodore Gill (1837), Henrietta Lacks (1920), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Frank Chapman (1864), and Esther Lederberg (1922).

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