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George Beadle

1903 - 1989

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George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 – June 9, 1989) was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. He served as the 7th president of the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1968. Beadle and Tatum's key experiments involved exposing the bread mold Neurospora crassa to x-rays, causing mutations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Beadle is the 16th most popular biologist (up from 61st in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from United States (up from 646th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Biologist.

Beadle was a publisher of dime novels and is most famous for publishing the first dime novel, Beadle's Dime Novels, which was a collection of stories that were published in the early 1800s.

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Among biologists, George Beadle ranks 16 out of 1,097. Before him are Konrad Lorenz, Rosalind Franklin, Karl Landsteiner, Robert Edwards, Robert Brown, and Georges Cuvier. After him are Alfred Russel Wallace, Macfarlane Burnet, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Élie Metchnikoff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Jules Bordet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, George Beadle ranks 8. Before him are Olav V of Norway, John von Neumann, Konrad Lorenz, Aram Khachaturian, Georges Simenon, and Theodor W. Adorno. After him are Ernst Kaltenbrunner, C. F. Powell, Adolf Butenandt, Habib Bourguiba, Fernandel, and Mark Rothko. Among people deceased in 1989, George Beadle ranks 14. Before him are Konrad Lorenz, Ted Bundy, Georges Simenon, Sergio Leone, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, and Andrei Sakharov. After him are Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Elena Ceaușescu, János Kádár, Andrei Gromyko, Lee Van Cleef, and Bette Davis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Beadle ranks 218 out of 20,380. Before him are Mariah Carey (1969), Jon Voight (1938), David Hasselhoff (1952), Kevin Costner (1955), Amelia Earhart (1897), and W. E. B. Du Bois (1868). After him are Buster Keaton (1895), Tom Cruise (1962), Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), Cecil B. DeMille (1881), and Grover Cleveland (1837).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, George Beadle ranks 2. Before him are James Watson (1928). After him are Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), Edward Tatum (1909), 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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