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The Most Famous

PHYSICIANS from Slovenia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Slovene Physicians. The pantheon dataset contains 502 Physicians, 1 of which were born in Slovenia. This makes Slovenia the birth place of the 45th most number of Physicians behind Faroe Islands and Haiti.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Slovene Physicians of all time. This list of famous Slovene Physicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Santorio Santorio (1561 - 1636)

With an HPI of 62.01, Santorio Santorio is the most famous Slovene Physician.  His biography has been translated into 29 different languages on wikipedia.

Santorio Santorio (29 March 1561 – 25 February 1636) whose real name was Santorio Santori (or de' Sanctoriis) better known in English as Sanctorius of Padua was an Italian physiologist, physician, and professor, who introduced the quantitative approach into the life sciences and is considered the father of modern quantitative experimentation in medicine. He is also known as the inventor of several medical devices. His work De Statica Medicina, written in 1614, saw many publications and influenced generations of physicians.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as physicians born between 1561 and 1561. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased physicians include Santorio Santorio.

Deceased Physicians

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