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Daniel Nathans

1928 - 1999

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Daniel Nathans (October 30, 1928 – November 16, 1999) was an American microbiologist. He shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application in restriction mapping. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Nathans is the 144th most popular biologist (up from 191st in 2019), the 1,239th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,758th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Daniel Nathans ranks 144 out of 1,097. Before him are Oliver Smithies, Martin Evans, Gerald Edelman, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Edward B. Lewis, and Aimé Bonpland. After him are Charles Scott Sherrington, E. O. Wilson, Gabriele Falloppio, Ibn al-Baitar, Johan Christian Fabricius, and Félix d'Herelle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Daniel Nathans ranks 57. Before him are Francesco Cossiga, Li Peng, Alfonso de Portago, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Peyo, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. After him are Osamu Shimomura, Hardy Krüger, Reynaldo Bignone, Karlheinz Böhm, Takeshi Inoue, and Jacques Rivette. Among people deceased in 1999, Daniel Nathans ranks 31. Before him are Trygve Haavelmo, Oliver Reed, Gerhard Herzberg, Julius Nyerere, Iris Murdoch, and Jerzy Grotowski. After him are Akio Morita, Mary Ainsworth, George C. Scott, Sarah Knauss, Henry Way Kendall, and João Figueiredo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Nathans ranks 1,239 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas Harris (1940), Mike Johnson (1972), David J. Wineland (1944), Chick Corea (1941), Jim Jarmusch (1953), and James Hetfield (1963). After him are Matthew McConaughey (1969), Angelo Badalamenti (1937), R. Lee Ermey (1944), William R. Pogue (1930), John Goodman (1952), and Betty Ford (1918).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Daniel Nathans ranks 25. Before him are Hamilton O. Smith (1931), Sam Harris (1967), John Franklin Enders (1897), Lynn Margulis (1938), Gerald Edelman (1929), and Edward B. Lewis (1918). After him are E. O. Wilson (1929), Howard Martin Temin (1934), Joshua Lederberg (1925), Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Martin Chalfie (1947), and Nettie Stevens (1861).

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