The Most Famous
Physicians from Denmark
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Physicians. The pantheon dataset contains 726 Physicians, 9 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 20th most number of Physicians behind Canada and China.
Top 9 Physicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Danish Physicians of all time. This list of famous Danish Physicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Johannes Fibiger
1867 - 1928
HPI 72.9556 langsJohannes Fibiger is most famous for his theory that stomach cancer is caused by the parasite, Schistosoma haematobium.
- #2
Jens Christian Skou
1918 - 2018
HPI 72.7957 langsJens Christian Skou is most famous for his invention of the process of electrophoresis.
- #3
August Krogh
1874 - 1949
HPI 72.7161 langsAugust Krogh is most famous for his work in the field of physiology. He was the first person to discover how muscles use ATP to contract.
- #4
Carl Værnet
1893 - 1965
HPI 64.8421 langsDanish holocaust perpetrator (1893–1965)
- #5
Carl Lange
1834 - 1900
HPI 61.8018 langsDanish physician who made significants contributions to the fields of neurology, psychiatry, and psychology (1834–1900)
- #6
Christian Bohr
1855 - 1911
HPI 61.3724 langsDanish physician and professor of physiology
- #7
Emil Aarestrup
1800 - 1856
HPI 61.0227 langsDanish poet
- #8
Max Heindel
1865 - 1919
HPI 60.5518 langsAmerican astrologer and occultist (1865-1919)
- #9
Halfdan T. Mahler
1923 - 2016
HPI 54.7615 langsDanish medical doctor and director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO)
Overlapping Lives
Which Physicians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 8 most globally memorable Physicians since 1700.
