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J. Michael Bishop

1936 - Today

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John Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936) is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus. He serves as an active faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also served as chancellor from 1998 to 2009. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. J. Michael Bishop is the 215th most popular biologist (down from 143rd in 2019), the 1,862nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,286th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, J. Michael Bishop ranks 215 out of 1,097. Before him are Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Olaus Rudbeck, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Nikolay Pirogov, Stephan Endlicher, and Johann Matthäus Bechstein. After him are Mikhail Tsvet, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Oldfield Thomas, James Dwight Dana, Bert Sakmann, and Eric F. Wieschaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, J. Michael Bishop ranks 88. Before him are Bekim Fehmiu, Bill Wyman, Kigeli V of Rwanda, François Pinault, James Mirrlees, and Hiroshi Saeki. After him are Eric Walter Elst, Héctor Elizondo, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and Koji Sasaki.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, J. Michael Bishop ranks 1,862 out of 20,380. Before him are Susanna Hoffs (1959), Joe Simon (1913), Peter Dinklage (1969), John Mearsheimer (1947), Bill Weld (1945), and Carson McCullers (1917). After him are John Forsythe (1918), Jack Warden (1920), James E. Webb (1906), Seán Patrick O'Malley (1944), Ellen DeGeneres (1958), and RZA (1969).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, J. Michael Bishop ranks 42. Before him are Paul Greengard (1925), Bruce Beutler (1957), Jack Horner (1946), George C. Williams (1926), George Wald (1906), and Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903). After 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).

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