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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 7,828 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Adolf Meyer is the 446th most popular physician (down from 411th in 2019), the 350th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 327th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swiss Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Adolf Meyer ranks 446 out of 502. Before him are Burrill Bernard Crohn, Andrew Yao, Arnold Pick, Abella, Rutherford Alcock, and Harry Seeley. After him are Rebecca Guarna, James Young Simpson, John Crawfurd, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Kazimierz Bein, and Hulusi Behçet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Adolf Meyer ranks 93. Before him are Ignacy Daszyński, Kuroda Seiki, George Coșbuc, Władysław Podkowiński, Max Wien, and Jaan Poska. After him are Alexander Protopopov, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Carl Gustav Witt, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, Euclides da Cunha, and Alexey Troitsky. Among people deceased in 1950, Adolf Meyer ranks 111. Before him are Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, Santiago Casares Quiroga, Orhan Veli Kanık, Alykul Osmonov, Pavel Bazhov, and Sergei Khudyakov. After him are George Kingsley Zipf, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Sudirman, Dirk Coster, Guilhermina Suggia, and Konrad von Preysing.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Adolf Meyer ranks 350 out of 876. Before him are Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445), Henri Druey (1799), Walter Thurnherr (1963), Pierre Tirard (1827), Roger Courtois (1912), and James Pradier (1790). After him are Fleur Jaeggy (1940), Christian Gross (1954), Claude Goretta (1929), Françoise Giroud (1916), Johann Baptist Cysat (1585), and Jules Gilliéron (1854).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Adolf Meyer ranks 12. Before him are Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), and Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867). After him are Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Thomas Erastus (1524), and Daniel Mojon (1963).

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