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Harold E. Varmus

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Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center. He was a co-recipient (along with J. Michael Bishop) of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. He was also the director of the National Institutes of Health from 1993 to 1999 and the 14th Director of the National Cancer Institute from 2010 to 2015, a post to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harold E. Varmus is the 403rd most popular biologist (up from 581st in 2019), the 3,501st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,215th in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Harold E. Varmus ranks 403 out of 1,097. Before him are Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Theodor Boveri, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Ludwik Fleck, Karl Koch, and Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre. After him are Lev Berg, Heinrich Anton de Bary, June Almeida, Georg August Goldfuss, Auguste Chevalier, and Philibert Commerson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Harold E. Varmus ranks 176. Before him are Susan Flannery, Rosanna Schiaffino, Andrew Parker Bowles, Lili Ivanova, Frank Vincent, and Brian Mulroney. After him are Heinz Holliger, Sal Mineo, Peppino di Capri, John Howard, Donald Adamson, and Ignacio Zoco.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold E. Varmus ranks 3,501 out of 20,380. Before him are Diana Nyad (1949), Paul Michael Glaser (1943), Barry Sullivan (1912), Scott Brown (1959), Robert Conrad (1935), and Sixto Durán Ballén (1921). After him are David Doyle (1929), Madeleine Astor (1893), Chuck Schumer (1950), William Wakefield Baum (1926), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), and Jared Kushner (1981).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Harold E. Varmus ranks 71. Before him are Theodore Gill (1837), Henrietta Lacks (1920), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Frank Chapman (1864), Esther Lederberg (1922), and James Bond (1900). After him are Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), Asa Gray (1810), Arthur Cronquist (1919), Robert Weinberg (1942), and Robert Gallo (1937).

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