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Ken Alibek

1950 - Today

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Kanatzhan "Kanat" Baizakovich Alibekov (born 1950), known as Kenneth "Ken" Alibek since 1992, is a Kazakh-American microbiologist, bioweaponeer, and biological warfare administrative management expert. He was the first deputy director of Biopreparat. During his career in Soviet bioweaponry development in the late 1970s and 1980s, Alibekov managed projects that included weaponizing glanders and Marburg hemorrhagic fever, and created Russia's first tularemia bomb. His most prominent accomplishment was the creation of a new "battle strain" of anthrax, known as "Strain 836", later described by the Los Angeles Times as "the most virulent and vicious strain of anthrax known to man". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Alibek is the 929th most popular biologist (down from 862nd in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (up from 69th in 2019) and the most popular Kazakhstani Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ken Alibek ranks 929 out of 1,097. Before him are Yang Zhongjian, Barry Commoner, Mary Katharine Brandegee, George Romanes, Carl Eduard Hellmayr, and Thomas Pennant. After him are Johann Christoph Wendland, Pierre Chambon, William Murrill, Joanne Chory, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, and Johann Wilhelm Meigen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Ken Alibek ranks 455. Before him are Yuji Hyakutake, Kirka, Ferenc Mészáros, José Ángel Gurría, Lothar Kurbjuweit, and Zvonimir Serdarušić. After him are Sun Chunlan, Marc Aaronson, Karmenu Vella, Ilinka Mitreva, Shahid Khan, and Martin McGuinness.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Ken Alibek ranks 64 out of 193. Before him are Timur Bekmambetov (1961), Alexander Kazantsev (1906), Ruslan Aushev (1954), Lev Rokhlin (1947), Vladimir Burtsev (1862), and Karim Massimov (1965). After him are Shaken Aimanov (1914), Älihan Smaiylov (1972), Joseph Werth (1952), David Rigert (1947), Imangali Tasmagambetov (1956), and Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov (1951).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Kazakhstan

Among biologists born in Kazakhstan, Ken Alibek ranks 1. 

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