BIOLOGIST

Ralph M. Steinman

1943 - 2011

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Ralph Marvin Steinman (January 14, 1943 – September 30, 2011) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University. Steinman was one of the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ralph M. Steinman is the 79th most popular biologist (up from 87th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Canada (up from 32nd in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Biologist. Learn more about Ralph M. Steinman's academic impact at Rankless.

Ralph M. Steinman was a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who discovered the dendritic cell and its role in the immune system.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ralph M. Steinman ranks 79 out of 1,097. Before him are Elizabeth Blackburn, Georg Forster, Alexander Oparin, Michael Houghton, Max Theiler, and Richard Owen. After him are Archibald Hill, René Lesson, Werner Arber, Jules A. Hoffmann, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, and Hans Spemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Ralph M. Steinman ranks 47. Before him are Eduard Limonov, Gianni Rivera, Malcolm McDowell, Johnny Hallyday, Richard Wright, and Mario Monti. After him are Griselda Blanco, Klaus von Klitzing, Mariss Jansons, Mohammad Khatami, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, and Antonio Tabucchi. Among people deceased in 2011, Ralph M. Steinman ranks 28. Before him are Jack LaLanne, William Lipscomb, Annie Girardot, Flórián Albert, John McCarthy, and Ramiz Alia. After him are Dennis Ritchie, Gary Moore, Sidney Lumet, Maria Schneider, Necmettin Erbakan, and Baruch Samuel Blumberg.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Ralph M. Steinman ranks 29 out of 1,622. Before him are Marshall McLuhan (1911), Richard E. Taylor (1929), David Cronenberg (1943), Alice Munro (1931), Pierre Trudeau (1919), and Bertram Brockhouse (1918). After him are Eric Berne (1910), David Johnston (1941), Frederick Banting (1891), Bryan Adams (1959), Neil Young (1945), and Sidney Altman (1939).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Canada

Among biologists born in Canada, Ralph M. Steinman ranks 1. After him are Robert H. MacArthur (1930), John Murray (1841), David Suzuki (1936), George Romanes (1848), Colin Munro MacLeod (1909), William Diller Matthew (1871), Alice Eastwood (1859), Alice Wilson (1881), Peter Watts (1958), Philip J. Currie (1949), and Carrie Derick (1862).

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