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Thomas Huckle Weller

1915 - 2008

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Thomas Huckle Weller (June 15, 1915 – August 23, 2008) was an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using a combination of human embryonic skin and muscle tissue. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Huckle Weller is the 154th most popular biologist (down from 104th in 2019), the 1,330th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,012th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Thomas Huckle Weller ranks 154 out of 1,097. Before him are Ibn al-Baitar, Johan Christian Fabricius, Félix d'Herelle, Howard Martin Temin, Joshua Lederberg, and Bernard Katz. After him are Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Martin Chalfie, Jakob von Uexküll, Susumu Tonegawa, Nettie Stevens, and Georg Wilhelm Steller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Thomas Huckle Weller ranks 41. Before him are Henry Taube, Geraldine of Albania, Paul Tibbets, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Albert O. Hirschman, and Helmut Schön. After him are Modibo Keïta, Aziz Nesin, Brother Roger, Rudolf Kirchschläger, Mario Del Monaco, and Prince George William of Hanover. Among people deceased in 2008, Thomas Huckle Weller ranks 47. Before him are Janez Drnovšek, Michael Crichton, George Emil Palade, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Joshua Lederberg, and Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow. After him are Aimé Césaire, Edward Norton Lorenz, Tassos Papadopoulos, Masanobu Fukuoka, Phil Hill, and Dino Risi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Huckle Weller ranks 1,330 out of 20,380. Before him are Virginia Satir (1916), Jennifer Jones (1919), Donald Rumsfeld (1932), Helen Wills (1905), James B. Conant (1893), and Condoleezza Rice (1954). After him are Horatio Alger (1832), Jon Bon Jovi (1962), William Daniel Phillips (1948), Carl Spaatz (1891), Mr. T (1952), and Willie Nelson (1933).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Thomas Huckle Weller ranks 29. Before him are Gerald Edelman (1929), Edward B. Lewis (1918), Daniel Nathans (1928), E. O. Wilson (1929), Howard Martin Temin (1934), and Joshua Lederberg (1925). After him are Martin Chalfie (1947), Nettie Stevens (1861), George Davis Snell (1903), Leland H. Hartwell (1939), Norman Borlaug (1914), and Carl Woese (1928).

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