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The top 10 Physicians from Germany trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
1911 - 1979
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This page contains a list of the greatest Germans Physicians. The pantheon dataset contains 749 Physicians, 103 of which were born in Germany. This makes Germany the birth place of the 2nd most number of Physicians.
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary German Physicians of all time. This list of famous German Physicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of German Physicians.
1911 - 1979
Josef Mengele was a German SS officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He is most famous for performing human experiments on prisoners and for his role in the selection of prisoners to be sent to the gas chambers.
1843 - 1910
Robert Koch is most famous for discovering the bacteria that causes tuberculosis.
1494 - 1555
Georgius Agricola is most famous for his book "De Re Metallica" which is a 1556 text on mining and metallurgy.
1864 - 1915
Alois Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who first identified Alzheimer's disease in 1906. He published his findings in 1907, and it is now known as Alzheimer's disease.
1883 - 1970
Otto Heinrich Warburg was a German physiologist and Nobel laureate. He is most famous for his discovery of the respiratory enzyme cytochrome c oxidase, which is the final enzyme in the electron transport chain.
1884 - 1951
Otto Fritz Meyerhof was a German physiologist who is most famous for his research on the role of mitochondria in cellular respiration.
1856 - 1926
Emil Kraepelin is most famous for his work in psychiatry and his contributions to the classification of mental disorders. He was one of the first psychiatrists to distinguish between dementia praecox (schizophrenia) and manic-depressive insanity (bipolar disorder).
1755 - 1843
Samuel Hahnemann is most famous for his theory of homeopathy, which is a system of medicine that uses substances that produce symptoms in healthy people as a form of treatment.
1895 - 1964
Domagk was a German scientist who discovered the first antibiotic, Prontosil, in 1932.
1873 - 1961
Otto Loewi is most famous for his work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses. In 1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
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