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Adolf Meyer

1866 - 1950

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Adolf Meyer (September 13, 1866 – March 17, 1950) was a Swiss-born psychiatrist who rose to prominence as the first psychiatrist-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (1910–1941). He was president of the American Psychiatric Association in 1927–28 and was one of the most influential figures in psychiatry in the first half of the twentieth century. His focus on collecting detailed case histories on patients was one of the most prominent of his contributions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Meyer has received more than 8,234 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Meyer is the 500th most popular physician (down from 445th in 2019), the 408th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 349th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swiss Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Adolf Meyer ranks 500 out of 726. Before him are Sergey Botkin, George Huntington, Tewhida Ben Sheikh, Abella, Ernest Starling, and Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer. After him are Benjamin Rush, Rebecca Guarna, Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Frank H. Netter, and Ugo Cerletti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Adolf Meyer ranks 106. Before him are Ernest William Brown, Jaan Poska, Alexander Protopopov, Tilemachos Karakalos, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, and Ernest Starling. After him are Carl Theodor Zahle, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, George Coșbuc, Euclides da Cunha, Fred Karno, and Richard Beer-Hofmann. Among people deceased in 1950, Adolf Meyer ranks 118. Before him are László Cseh, Recep Peker, Sami al-Hinnawi, Hiroshi Yoshida, George Kingsley Zipf, and Joe Fry. After him are Fats Navarro, Karin Michaëlis, Joseph, Duke of Parma, Alykul Osmonov, Edward Arthur Milne, and Ivan Shmelyov.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Adolf Meyer ranks 408 out of 1,015. Before him are Fernán Caballero (1796), Elisabeth Kopp (1936), Christian Gross (1954), Corina Casanova (1956), Pierre Viret (1511), and Justus Dahinden (1925). After him are Hedy Schlunegger (1923), Jean Reynier (1771), Charles Journet (1891), Hermann Obrist (1863), Walter Thurnherr (1963), and Albert Meyer (1870).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Adolf Meyer ranks 14. Before him are Friedrich Miescher (1844), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), and Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777). After him are Wilhelm His Sr. (1831), Paolo Macchiarini (1958), Thomas Erastus (1524), and Daniel Mojon (1963).

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