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Edward Tatum

1909 - 1975

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Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg. Tatum was an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Tatum is the 23rd most popular biologist (up from 106th in 2019), the 276th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,027th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Biologist.

Edward Tatum was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1958 for his work on the structure of proteins.

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Among biologists, Edward Tatum ranks 23 out of 1,097. Before him are Alfred Russel Wallace, Macfarlane Burnet, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Élie Metchnikoff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Jules Bordet. After him are Yoshinori Ohsumi, John Boyd Orr, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Sulston, and Richard Dawkins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Edward Tatum ranks 8. Before him are Eugène Ionesco, Nicholas Winton, Juliana of the Netherlands, Simone Weil, Osamu Dazai, and James Mason. After him are Mohammed Daoud Khan, U Thant, Francis Bacon, Andrei Gromyko, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Peter Drucker. Among people deceased in 1975, Edward Tatum ranks 15. Before him are Aristotle Onassis, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Robert Robinson, Otto Skorzeny, Josephine Baker, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz. After him are Mikhail Bakhtin, Arnold J. Toynbee, George Paget Thomson, Saint-John Perse, Josemaría Escrivá, and Graham Hill.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Tatum ranks 276 out of 20,380. Before him are Margaret Sanger (1879), Beyoncé (1981), Peter Falk (1927), Gary Cooper (1901), Samuel L. Jackson (1948), and Barbra Streisand (1942). After him are Carl David Anderson (1905), Joe Jackson (1928), Ray Charles (1930), Fred Trump (1905), Jane Fonda (1937), and Burt Lancaster (1913).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Edward Tatum ranks 4. Before him are James Watson (1928), George Beadle (1903), and Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866). After him are George Smith (1941), Barbara McClintock (1902), Rachel Carson (1907), Irwin Rose (1926), Linda B. Buck (1947), Dian Fossey (1932), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), and Alfred Hershey (1908).

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