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Joanne Chory

1955 - 2024

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Joanne Chory (March 19, 1955 – November 12, 2024) was an American plant biologist and geneticist. She was a professor and director of the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Chory was the founding director of the Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants Initiative (HPI), a carbon dioxide removal approach to fight climate change by optimizing a plant’s natural ability to capture and store carbon dioxide and adapt to different climate conditions. Chory and the HPI team aim to help plants grow bigger and stronger root systems that can absorb larger amounts of carbon by burying it in the ground in the form of suberin, a naturally occurring substance. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joanne Chory is the 933rd most popular biologist (up from 1,050th in 2019), the 8,495th most popular biography from United States (up from 13,053rd in 2019) and the 133rd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joanne Chory ranks 933 out of 1,097. Before her are Carl Eduard Hellmayr, Thomas Pennant, Ken Alibek, Johann Christoph Wendland, Pierre Chambon, and William Murrill. After her are Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Johann Wilhelm Meigen, Norman I. Platnick, Philipp Christoph Zeller, Alice Catherine Evans, and George Edwards.

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Among people born in 1955, Joanne Chory ranks 366. Before her are Zlatko Lagumdžija, Agathonas Iakovidis, K. Eric Drexler, Fang Fang, Gjoko Hadžievski, and Piers Sellers. After her are Michel Renquin, Andy Bechtolsheim, Elisa Ferreira, Howie Mandel, Warren Jeffs, and Jean Kambanda. Among people deceased in 2024, Joanne Chory ranks 389. Before her are Robert H. Dennard, Jon Landau, Comunardo Niccolai, Mitzi Gaynor, Klaus Töpfer, and Jean Malaurie. After her are Marlena Shaw, Robert Coover, Bob Bryar, Phelekezela Mphoko, Maxine Singer, and Ben Vautier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joanne Chory ranks 8,497 out of 20,380. Before her are Elmer Rice (1892), Masten Gregory (1932), Reggie Jackson (1946), Ed Royce (1951), Dana Plato (1964), and Jane Wyatt (1910). After her are Marlena Shaw (1939), Joseph Bologna (1934), Betty Davis (1945), Orville Gibson (1856), Robert S. Kimbrough (1967), and A. P. Hill (1825).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Joanne Chory ranks 133. Before her are Sereno Watson (1826), Joseph Banks Rhine (1895), Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Janet Rowley (1925), Barry Commoner (1917), and Mary Katharine Brandegee (1844). After her are Norman I. Platnick (1951), Alice Catherine Evans (1881), Maxine Singer (1931), Outram Bangs (1863), Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890), and William Beebe (1877).

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