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René Dubos

1901 - 1982

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René Jules Dubos (February 20, 1901 – February 20, 1982) was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book So Human An Animal. He is credited for having made famous the environmental maxim: "Think globally, act locally." Aside from a period from 1942 to 1944 when he was George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology and professor of tropical medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, his scientific career was spent entirely at The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, later renamed The Rockefeller University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. René Dubos is the 837th most popular biologist (down from 600th in 2019), the 4,393rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,962nd in 2019) and the 116th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, René Dubos ranks 837 out of 1,097. Before him are John Gerard, Alfred Cogniaux, Osbert Salvin, Michael Sars, Robert Collett, and Richard Spruce. After him are Warwick Estevam Kerr, David Keilin, Charles Sibley, Hans von Berlepsch, Albert William Herre, and Clinton Hart Merriam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, René Dubos ranks 249. Before him are Gaston Waringhien, Jakub Berman, Rudolf Wetzer, Ivar Lo-Johansson, Suzanne Lilar, and Pedro Benítez. After him are James Dunn, Paul Martin, Otto Heckmann, Mickey Marcus, Mildred Davis, and Dorothy Hansine Andersen. Among people deceased in 1982, René Dubos ranks 202. Before him are Ramón J. Sender, Jakob Streitle, Paolo Monti, Vladislao Cap, Clifford Curzon, and Virginia Hall. After him are Nikolai Kamanin, Elis Wiklund, Tomás Romero Pereira, Victor Buono, Beb Bakhuys, and Boris Andreyev.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Dubos ranks 4,393 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Despeaux (1915), Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804), Albert Rust (1953), Virginie Ledoyen (1976), Georges Buchard (1893), and Guy Drut (1950). After him are Michel Boisrond (1921), Antoine Vollon (1833), Frédérick Tristan (1931), René Bondoux (1905), Pierre Puiseux (1855), and Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, René Dubos ranks 116. Before him are Émile Blanchard (1819), Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799), Jules Pierre Rambur (1801), Aimée Antoinette Camus (1879), André Thouin (1746), and Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804). After him are Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808), Jules Verreaux (1807), Édouard Ménétries (1802), Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842), and Théodore Monod (1902).

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