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Phoebus Levene

1869 - 1940

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Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene (25 February 1869 – 6 September 1940) was a Russian-born American biochemist who studied the structure and function of nucleic acids. He characterized the different forms of nucleic acid, DNA from RNA, and found that DNA contained adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine, deoxyribose, and a phosphate group. He was born into a Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) family as Fishel Aronovich Levin in the town of Žagarė in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, but grew up in St. Petersburg. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Phoebus Levene is the 481st most popular chemist (down from 468th in 2024), the 131st most popular biography from Lithuania and the 3rd most popular Lithuanian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Phoebus Levene ranks 481 out of 602. Before him are Hugo Erdmann, K. C. Nicolaou, John Mayow, Carl Theodore Liebermann, David Baker, and Yellapragada Subbarow. After him are Masatoshi Shima, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Ivan Horbachevsky, Archibald Scott Couper, Alwin Mittasch, and William Nicholson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Phoebus Levene ranks 120. Before him are Sergey Chaplygin, Ivan Aguéli, Daniel Salamanca Urey, Alice Hamilton, Kálmán Kandó, and Józef Mehoffer. After him are Alwin Mittasch, Robbie Ross, Myriam Harry, Harald Sohlberg, Juan Bautista Pérez, and Oton Iveković. Among people deceased in 1940, Phoebus Levene ranks 132. Before him are Kamal-ol-molk, Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, Jay O'Brien, Helmut Wick, Pierre Weiss, and Pierre Marie. After him are Robert Emden, Mary Anderson, Sam Eyde, Heinrich Kayser, Janne Lundblad, and Juan Carreño.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Phoebus Levene ranks 131 out of 328. Before him are Emil Młynarski (1870), Žemaitė (1845), Stanisław Witkiewicz (1851), Aušra Augustinavičiūtė (1927), Donald Kagan (1932), and Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius (1882). After him are Bernard Lown (1921), Henryk Gulbinowicz (1923), Steponas Darius (1896), Iosif Grigulevich (1913), Cornell Borchers (1925), and Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873).

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Among CHEMISTS In Lithuania

Among chemists born in Lithuania, Phoebus Levene ranks 3. Before him are Wilfrid Voynich (1865), and Aaron Klug (1926).

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