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Leland H. Hartwell

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Leland Harrison "Lee" Hartwell (born October 30, 1939) is an American former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Tim Hunt, for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division (duplication) of cells. Working in yeast, Hartwell identified the fundamental role of checkpoints in cell cycle control, and CDC genes such as CDC28, which controls the start of the cycle—the progression through G1. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leland H. Hartwell is the 168th most popular biologist (down from 155th in 2019), the 1,439th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,375th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Leland H. Hartwell ranks 168 out of 1,097. Before him are George Davis Snell, Renato Dulbecco, Mario Capecchi, Henry Walter Bates, Louis Agassiz, and Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber. After him are William Bateson, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Joseph Dalton Hooker, John Ray, Norman Borlaug, and Adolf Engler.

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Among people born in 1939, Leland H. Hartwell ranks 54. Before him are Sonny Chiba, Ray Manzarek, Volker Schlöndorff, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Stanisław Dziwisz, and Susumu Tonegawa. After him are Alfredo Palacio, Carlo Ginzburg, Beate Klarsfeld, Henry Mintzberg, Ion Țiriac, and Princess Irene of the Netherlands.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leland H. Hartwell ranks 1,439 out of 20,380. Before him are Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Spike Lee (1957), Tom Morello (1964), Vincent Price (1911), Bill Russell (1934), and Betty White (1922). After him are Walter Gilbert (1932), C. Wright Mills (1916), Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794), Robert Rodriguez (1968), Linda Lee Cadwell (1945), and Lawrence M. Krauss (1954).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Leland H. Hartwell ranks 33. Before him are Howard Martin Temin (1934), Joshua Lederberg (1925), Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Martin Chalfie (1947), Nettie Stevens (1861), and George Davis Snell (1903). After him are Norman Borlaug (1914), Carl Woese (1928), Paul Greengard (1925), Bruce Beutler (1957), Jack Horner (1946), and George C. Williams (1926).

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