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Hamilton O. Smith

1931 - Today

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Hamilton Othanel Smith (born August 23, 1931 in New York) is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate. Smith graduated from University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but in 1950 transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his B.A. in Mathematics in 1952 [1]. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1956. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hamilton O. Smith is the 128th most popular biologist (up from 140th in 2019), the 1,114th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,265th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 128 out of 1,097. Before him are John Hopfield, Erasmus Darwin, Carl Nägeli, Hans Christian Gram, Robert Whittaker, and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. After him are Sam Harris, Reginald Innes Pocock, Sydney Brenner, John Franklin Enders, Jan Swammerdam, and William Jackson Hooker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 55. Before him are John le Carré, Nawal El Saadawi, Kakuichi Mimura, William Shatner, Viktor Korchnoi, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. After him are Michael Lonsdale, Caterina Valente, Takashi Takabayashi, Jim Jones, Richard Rorty, and Hiroto Muraoka.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 1,114 out of 20,380. Before him are Percival Lowell (1855), Robert Whittaker (1920), Gloria Swanson (1899), Tori Amos (1963), Lawrence Klein (1920), and Robert F. Furchgott (1916). After him are Sam Harris (1967), James Gunn (1966), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), Benjamin Guggenheim (1865), Martin Seligman (1942), and Gena Rowlands (1930).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Hamilton O. Smith ranks 19. Before him are Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), John B. Calhoun (1917), Sylvia Earle (1935), John Hopfield (1933), and Robert Whittaker (1920). After him are Sam Harris (1967), John Franklin Enders (1897), Lynn Margulis (1938), Gerald Edelman (1929), Edward B. Lewis (1918), and Daniel Nathans (1928).

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