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Wendell Meredith Stanley

1904 - 1971

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Wendell Meredith Stanley (August 16, 1904 – June 15, 1971) was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Stanley's work contributed to on lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry and the chemistry of the sterols. His research on the virus causing the mosaic disease in tobacco plants led to the isolation of a nucleoprotein which displayed tobacco mosaic virus activity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wendell Meredith Stanley is the 66th most popular chemist (up from 130th in 2019), the 361st most popular biography from United States (up from 804th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Chemist.

Wendell Meredith Stanley was most famous for his discovery of the cause of the disease known as sleeping sickness. Sleeping sickness is a parasitic disease that is transmitted by tsetse flies.

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Among chemists, Wendell Meredith Stanley ranks 66 out of 602. Before him are Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Francis William Aston, Norman Haworth, John Howard Northrop, Ilya Prigogine, and Leopold Ružička. After him are Henry Hallett Dale, Gerty Cori, Vladimir Prelog, Gertrude B. Elion, Dorothy Hodgkin, and William Giauque.

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Among people born in 1904, Wendell Meredith Stanley ranks 11. Before him are Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Seuss, Umberto II of Italy, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, Cary Grant, and Jean Gabin. After him are B. F. Skinner, Ève Curie, George Gamow, Johnny Weissmuller, Pavel Cherenkov, and Harry Martinson. Among people deceased in 1971, Wendell Meredith Stanley ranks 10. Before him are Lawrence Bragg, Louis Armstrong, Jim Morrison, Paul Karrer, John Boyd Orr, and György Lukács. After him are Audie Murphy, Giorgos Seferis, Fernandel, Hermann Hoth, J. D. Bernal, and Theodor Svedberg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wendell Meredith Stanley ranks 361 out of 20,380. Before him are John B. Watson (1878), James A. Garfield (1831), Demi Moore (1962), Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), and Susan Sarandon (1946). After him are Rita Hayworth (1918), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), Bernie Sanders (1941), Margaret Hamilton (1936), Ed White (1930), and Willis Lamb (1913).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Wendell Meredith Stanley ranks 10. Before him are George Washington Carver (1864), John Fenn (1917), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Linus Pauling (1901), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), and John Howard Northrop (1891). After him are Gertrude B. Elion (1918), Robert S. Mulliken (1896), James B. Sumner (1887), Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), and Theodore William Richards (1868).

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