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Alois Alzheimer

1864 - 1915

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Alois Alzheimer ( ALTS-hy-mər, US also AHLTS-, AWLTS-, German: [ˈaːlɔɪs ˈʔaltshaɪmɐ]; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a German psychiatrist, neuropathologist and colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alois Alzheimer has received more than 1,061,256 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Alois Alzheimer is the 18th most popular physician, the 167th most popular biography from Germany (down from 151st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Physician.

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.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Alois Alzheimer ranks 18 out of 726. Before him are Albert Schweitzer, William Harvey, Ignaz Semmelweis, Michael Servetus, Cesare Lombroso, and Cyril of Alexandria. After him are Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Nestorius, Pedanius Dioscorides, Georgius Agricola, Li Ching-Yuen, and Rudolf Virchow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Alois Alzheimer ranks 6. Before him are Max Weber, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Richard Strauss, Wilhelm Wien, and Maurice Leblanc. After him are Camille Claudel, Walther Nernst, Hermann Minkowski, Eleftherios Venizelos, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. Among people deceased in 1915, Alois Alzheimer ranks 1. After him are Alexander Scriabin, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Paul Ehrlich, Porfirio Díaz, Henry Moseley, Ellen G. White, Jean-Henri Fabre, Sergei Witte, Clara Immerwahr, Leo Frank, and Wilhelm Windelband.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alois Alzheimer ranks 167 out of 7,253. Before him are George II of Great Britain (1683), Pope Damasus II (1000), Princess Sophie of Bavaria (1805), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Johann Christian Bach (1735), and Leopold Mozart (1719). After him are Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Georg Simmel (1858), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (990), Hans Holbein the Younger (1497), and Philip Melanchthon (1497).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Alois Alzheimer ranks 3. Before him are Robert Koch (1843), and Josef Mengele (1911). After him are Georgius Agricola (1494), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Loewi (1873), Theodor Morell (1886), and Werner Forssmann (1904).

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