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William Kaelin Jr.

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William G. Kaelin Jr. (born November 23, 1957) is an American Nobel laureate physician-scientist. He is a professor of medicine at Harvard University and the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. His laboratory studies tumor suppressor proteins. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2024). William Kaelin Jr. is the 143rd most popular physician (up from 423rd in 2024), the 1,133rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,089th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Kaelin Jr. ranks 143 out of 726. Before him are Francis Peyton Rous, Trota of Salerno, Johann Joachim Becher, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Dickinson W. Richards, and George H. Hitchings. After him are Jang-geum, Ferid Murad, Charles Best, Ryke Geerd Hamer, Ibn Zuhr, and Rolf M. Zinkernagel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, William Kaelin Jr. ranks 26. Before him are Shigeru Ishiba, Frances McDormand, Greg Abbott, Frank Miller, Melanie Griffith, and Mukesh Ambani. After him are Gloria Estefan, Paul Kagame, Steve Buscemi, Falco, Carole Bouquet, and Ofra Haza.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Kaelin Jr. ranks 1,133 out of 20,380. Before him are Mahershala Ali (1974), George H. Hitchings (1905), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), L. Frank Baum (1856), and Lewis Strauss (1896). After him are William D. Leahy (1875), Frank B. Kellogg (1856), Adam Sandler (1966), Robert Ludlum (1927), William Saroyan (1908), and John Franklin Enders (1897).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, William Kaelin Jr. ranks 20. Before him are Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), Drew Weissman (1959), George Whipple (1878), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), and George H. Hitchings (1905). After him are Ferid Murad (1936), Charles Best (1899), Jonas Salk (1914), Peter Agre (1949), Virginia Apgar (1909), and E. Donnall Thomas (1920).

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