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Pierre Chambon

1931 - 2018

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Pierre Chambon (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʃɑ̃bɔ̃]; born 7 February 1931 in Mulhouse, France) was the founder of the Institute for Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Biology in Strasbourg, France. He was one of the leading molecular biologists who utilized gene cloning and sequencing technology to first decipher the structure of eukaryotic genes and their modes of regulation. His major contributions to science include the identification of RNA polymerase II (B), the identification of transcriptional control elements, the cloning and dissection of nuclear hormone receptors, revealing their structure and showing how they contribute to human physiology. His group was also one of the first to demonstrate, biochemically and electron-microscopically, that the nucleosome is the smallest unit of chromatin (Cell, Vol. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Chambon is the 931st most popular biologist (down from 868th in 2019), the 4,733rd most popular biography from France (up from 4,770th in 2019) and the 127th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pierre Chambon ranks 931 out of 1,097. Before him are Mary Katharine Brandegee, George Romanes, Carl Eduard Hellmayr, Thomas Pennant, Ken Alibek, and Johann Christoph Wendland. After him are William Murrill, Joanne Chory, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Johann Wilhelm Meigen, Norman I. Platnick, and Philipp Christoph Zeller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Pierre Chambon ranks 458. Before him are Nadezhda Konyayeva, Müzahir Sille, Giovanni Battista Rabino, Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Sonny Clark, and Marina Popovich. After him are Mitzi Gaynor, Marshall Applewhite, Norman Mineta, Virginia McKenna, Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, and Věra Suková. Among people deceased in 2018, Pierre Chambon ranks 390. Before him are Madalena Iglésias, Jiichiro Date, Saida Gunba, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Joseph Bonnel, and Tadeusz Kraus. After him are Anne V. Coates, Per Ahlmark, José Varacka, Viktor Kanevskyi, Mel Ramos, and Jimmy Armfield.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Chambon ranks 4,733 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Raynaud (1834), Jacques Baratier (1918), Laurent Koscielny (1985), Corinne Calvet (1925), Léon Delagrange (1872), and Robert Boutigny (1927). After him are Philippe Claudel (1962), Vernon Lee (1856), Pierre Gasly (1996), Jacques Dupin (1927), Jean-Louis Borloo (1951), and Guillaume Grandidier (1873).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Pierre Chambon ranks 127. Before him are Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842), Théodore Monod (1902), Paul Henri Lecomte (1856), Palisot de Beauvois (1752), François Gagnepain (1866), and Gaston Bonnier (1853). After him are Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (1930), Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1928), Jacques Miller (1931), and Stanislas Dehaene (1965).

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