BIOLOGIST

Harald zur Hausen

1936 - 2023

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Harald zur Hausen NAS EASA APS (German pronunciation: [ˈhaʁalt tsuːɐ̯ ˈhaʊzn̩] ; 11 March 1936 – 29 May 2023) was a German virologist. He carried out research on cervical cancer and discovered the role of papilloma viruses in cervical cancer, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008. He was chairman of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) in Heidelberg. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harald zur Hausen is the 46th most popular biologist (down from 36th in 2019), the 384th most popular biography from Germany (up from 417th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Biologist.

Harald zur Hausen is most famous for his discovery of the human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Harald zur Hausen ranks 46 out of 1,097. Before him are Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, Karl von Frisch, Ada Yonath, Richard Henderson, and Peter Simon Pallas. After him are Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Tomas Lindahl, Irwin Rose, Charles Richet, and Lazzaro Spallanzani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Harald zur Hausen ranks 17. Before him are Mikhail Tal, Ismail Kadare, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Margaret Hamilton, Ken Loach, and Valery Legasov. After him are John McCain, F. W. de Klerk, Louis Gossett Jr., Andrei Chikatilo, Robert Woodrow Wilson, and Aga Khan IV. Among people deceased in 2023, Harald zur Hausen ranks 21. Before him are Giorgio Napolitano, Michael Gambon, Sinéad O'Connor, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Just Fontaine, and Robert Lucas Jr.. After him are Ted Kaczynski, Fernando Botero, Louise Glück, Paul Berg, Rosalynn Carter, and Paco Rabanne.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Harald zur Hausen ranks 384 out of 7,253. Before him are Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), Pope Victor II (1018), Regiomontanus (1436), Joseph Beuys (1921), Thomas à Kempis (1380), and Moses Mendelssohn (1729). After him are Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), Valdemar I of Denmark (1131), Hugo Boss (1885), Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Fritz Sauckel (1894), and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Harald zur Hausen ranks 5. Before him are Ernst Haeckel (1834), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), Albrecht Kossel (1853), and Peter Simon Pallas (1741). After him are Theodor Schwann (1810), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Hans Spemann (1869), August Weismann (1834), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), Ernst Mayr (1904), and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942).

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