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George Church

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George McDonald Church (born August 28, 1954) is an American geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist, serial entrepreneur, and pioneer in personal genomics and synthetic biology. He is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a founding member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Through his Harvard laboratory, Church has co-founded around 50 biotechnology companies. In 2018, the Church laboratory at Harvard spun off 16 biotechnology companies in one year. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Church is the 416th most popular chemist (up from 593rd in 2019), the 4,605th most popular biography from United States (up from 13,750th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, George Church ranks 416 out of 602. Before him are Henry Roscoe, John William Draper, Jan Czochralski, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Brunó Ferenc Straub, and Franz von Soxhlet. After him are Otto Wichterle, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Walther Kossel, Carl Graebe, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, and Lina Stern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, George Church ranks 199. Before him are Benoît Sokal, Plastic Bertrand, Steve MacLean, Margot Wallström, Thomas de Maizière, and Peter MacNicol. After him are Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, Ahmed Dogan, Gabi Ashkenazi, Dennis Haysbert, Joseph Ngute, and Anish Kapoor.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Church ranks 4,605 out of 20,380. Before him are Minnie Riperton (1947), Joey Jordison (1975), Milton L. Humason (1891), Douglas Diamond (1953), Peter MacNicol (1954), and Randall Duk Kim (1943). After him are GG Allin (1956), Robert Anderson (1917), Kenneth Arnold (1915), William Forsythe (1955), Susan Kilrain (1961), and Grey DeLisle (1973).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, George Church ranks 81. Before him are Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Isabella Karle (1921), Maclyn McCarty (1911), Eric Betzig (1960), Jennifer Doudna (1964), and Roy J. Plunkett (1910). After him are Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), James Crafts (1839), John Tukey (1915), Myrtle Bachelder (1908), Donella Meadows (1941), and Allen J. Bard (1933).

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