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Sam Harris

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Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, determinism, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion, and he is known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett. Harris's first book, The End of Faith (2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 33 weeks. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sam Harris is the 129th most popular biologist (up from 882nd in 2019), the 1,115th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,400th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sam Harris ranks 129 out of 1,097. Before him are Erasmus Darwin, Carl Nägeli, Hans Christian Gram, Robert Whittaker, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, and Hamilton O. Smith. After him are Reginald Innes Pocock, Sydney Brenner, John Franklin Enders, Jan Swammerdam, William Jackson Hooker, and Lynn Margulis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Sam Harris ranks 16. Before him are Mark Rutte, Mikheil Saakashvili, David Guetta, Carla Bruni, Andrés Escobar, and Kane. After him are Toni Braxton, Pamela Anderson, Akshay Kumar, Bajram Begaj, Kazuyoshi Miura, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sam Harris ranks 1,115 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Whittaker (1920), Gloria Swanson (1899), Tori Amos (1963), Lawrence Klein (1920), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), and Hamilton O. Smith (1931). After him are James Gunn (1966), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), Benjamin Guggenheim (1865), Martin Seligman (1942), Gena Rowlands (1930), and Dickinson W. Richards (1895).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Sam Harris ranks 20. Before him are Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), John B. Calhoun (1917), Sylvia Earle (1935), John Hopfield (1933), Robert Whittaker (1920), and Hamilton O. Smith (1931). After him are John Franklin Enders (1897), Lynn Margulis (1938), Gerald Edelman (1929), Edward B. Lewis (1918), Daniel Nathans (1928), and E. O. Wilson (1929).

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