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Robert Gallo

1937 - Today

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Robert Charles Gallo (; born March 23, 1937) is an American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in establishing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and in the development of the HIV blood test, and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research. Gallo is the director and co-founder of the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, established in 1996 in a partnership including the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore. In November 2011, Gallo was named the first Homer & Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Gallo is the 454th most popular biologist (down from 366th in 2019), the 4,001st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,341st in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Gallo ranks 454 out of 1,097. Before him are Clemens von Pirquet, Oswald Heer, Francisco Manuel Blanco, Carl Meissner, George Allman, and Joseph Franz von Jacquin. After him are Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Henrik Steffens, Antoine de Jussieu, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Francis Darwin, and Anna Russell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Robert Gallo ranks 195. Before him are Dick Dale, Vadim Bakatin, Erich Ribbeck, Tom Courtenay, Lusine Zakaryan, and Richard Bright. After him are Petar Radaković, Gordon Milne, Chris Bristow, Luciano Moggi, Dyan Cannon, and Milutin Šoškić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Gallo ranks 4,001 out of 20,380. Before him are Katherine Heigl (1978), Angelica Singleton Van Buren (1818), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Fulton J. Sheen (1895), Jennifer Rush (1960), and Vince Gilligan (1967). After him are Newt Gingrich (1943), Michael Stipe (1960), Ben Wallace (1974), David Janssen (1931), Lonnie Johnson (1899), and Louis Prima (1910).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Robert Gallo ranks 77. Before him are Harold E. Varmus (1939), Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), Asa Gray (1810), Arthur Cronquist (1919), and Robert Weinberg (1942). After him are Luther Burbank (1849), Sewall Wright (1889), Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), Robert Sapolsky (1957), Wilder Penfield (1891), and David Starr Jordan (1851).

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