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Michael Houghton

1949 - Today

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Sir Michael Houghton (born 1949) is a British scientist and Nobel Prize laureate. Along with Qui-Lim Choo, George Kuo and Daniel W. Bradley, he co-discovered Hepatitis C in 1989. He also co-discovered the Hepatitis D genome in 1986. The discovery of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) led to the rapid development of diagnostic reagents to detect HCV in blood supplies, which has reduced the risk of acquiring HCV through blood transfusion from one in three to about one in two million. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Houghton is the 76th most popular biologist (up from 230th in 2019), the 501st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,334th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Michael Houghton ranks 76 out of 1,097. Before him are Adelbert von Chamisso, Günter Blobel, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Elizabeth Blackburn, Georg Forster, and Alexander Oparin. After him are Max Theiler, Richard Owen, Ralph M. Steinman, Archibald Hill, René Lesson, and Werner Arber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Michael Houghton ranks 43. Before him are Thomas Sankara, Arif Alvi, George Foreman, Bobby Farrell, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Carlos the Jackal. After him are Hugh David Politzer, Horst Ludwig Störmer, Patrick Süskind, Amin Maalouf, Steve Perry, and Linda Lovelace.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Houghton ranks 501 out of 8,785. Before him are Tony Scott (1944), Ralph Fiennes (1962), Angela Lansbury (1925), George Reid (1845), Malcolm McDowell (1943), and Billy Wright (1924). After him are Anthony Burgess (1917), James Hilton (1900), Jackie Stewart (1939), Richard Wright (1943), Arthur Eddington (1882), and Andrew Irvine (1902).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Michael Houghton ranks 16. Before him are Francis Crick (1916), John Edward Gray (1800), Christian de Duve (1917), Richard Henderson (1945), Gregory Winter (1951), and George Shaw (1751). After him are Richard Owen (1804), Archibald Hill (1886), Philip Sclater (1829), Philip Miller (1691), William John Swainson (1789), and James Edward Smith (1759).

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