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H. Robert Horvitz

1947 - Today

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Howard Robert Horvitz ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS NAM (born May 8, 1947) is an American biologist whose research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Sydney Brenner and John E. Sulston, whose "seminal discoveries concerning the genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death" were "important for medical research and have shed new light on the pathogenesis of many diseases". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. H. Robert Horvitz is the 248th most popular biologist (down from 223rd in 2019), the 2,245th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,107th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Biologist. Learn more about H. Robert Horvitz's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, H. Robert Horvitz ranks 248 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Correns, Pieter Boddaert, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, John Lindley, William Aiton, and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville. After him are Harald Sverdrup, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Joy Adamson, Johann Baptist von Spix, Albert von Kölliker, and Martin Vahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, H. Robert Horvitz ranks 150. Before him are Alexander Rutskoy, Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Tadahiko Ueda, Glenn Tipton, Ángel Nieto, and Takeo Takahashi. After him are Anne Wiazemsky, Nevio Scala, Nancy Fraser, Somchai Wongsawat, Henri Michel, and Marisa Berenson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, H. Robert Horvitz ranks 2,245 out of 20,380. Before him are Dorothea Tanning (1910), Lance Armstrong (1971), John Frankenheimer (1930), Michael McDonald (1952), John Carradine (1906), and Daniel Bell (1919). After him are Cindy Crawford (1966), Don Budge (1915), Jerry Stiller (1927), Hunter S. Thompson (1937), Alfred Stieglitz (1864), and Joe Lynn Turner (1951).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, H. Robert Horvitz ranks 49. Before him are James Dwight Dana (1813), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Temple Grandin (1947), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), and John du Pont (1938). After him are James Rothman (1950), Michael Rosbash (1944), Michael W. Young (1949), Wilbur Scoville (1865), Elmer Drew Merrill (1876), and Gerrit Smith Miller (1869).

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