1864 - 1915
Alois Alzheimer ( ALTS-hy-mər, US also AHLTS-, AWLTS-, German: [ˈaːlɔɪs ˈʔaltshaɪmɐ]; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alois Alzheimer has received more than 994,378 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Alois Alzheimer is the 18th most popular physician, the 151st most popular biography from Germany (up from 155th 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, Alois Alzheimer ranks 18 out of 502. Before him are Albert Schweitzer, William Harvey, Li Ching-Yuen, Cyril of Alexandria, Cesare Lombroso, and Ignaz Semmelweis. After him are Michael Servetus, Nestorius, Pedanius Dioscorides, Jacques Rogge, Rudolf Virchow, and Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.
1875 - 1965
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 12
1578 - 1657
HPI: 75.15
Rank: 13
1677 - 1933
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 14
376 - 444
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 15
1835 - 1909
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 16
1818 - 1865
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 17
1864 - 1915
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 18
1509 - 1553
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 19
381 - 451
HPI: 72.04
Rank: 20
40 - 90
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 21
1942 - 2021
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 22
1821 - 1902
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 23
1738 - 1814
HPI: 70.71
Rank: 24
Among people born in 1864, Alois Alzheimer ranks 4. Before him are Max Weber, Richard Strauss, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. After him are Wilhelm Wien, Maurice Leblanc, Camille Claudel, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Walther Nernst, Hermann Minkowski, and Alfred Hermann Fried. Among people deceased in 1915, Alois Alzheimer ranks 2. Before him is Frederick Winslow Taylor. After him are Alexander Scriabin, Paul Ehrlich, Henry Moseley, Ellen G. White, Porfirio Díaz, Jean-Henri Fabre, Clara Immerwahr, Sergei Witte, Wilhelm Windelband, and Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
1864 - 1920
HPI: 86.05
Rank: 1
1864 - 1949
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 2
1864 - 1901
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 3
1864 - 1915
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 4
1864 - 1928
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 5
1864 - 1941
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 6
1864 - 1943
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 7
1864 - 1945
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 8
1864 - 1931
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 9
1864 - 1941
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 10
1864 - 1909
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 11
1864 - 1921
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 12
1856 - 1915
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 1
1864 - 1915
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 2
1871 - 1915
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 3
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 4
1887 - 1915
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 5
1827 - 1915
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 6
1830 - 1915
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 7
1823 - 1915
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 8
1870 - 1915
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 9
1849 - 1915
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 10
1848 - 1915
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 11
1866 - 1915
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Alois Alzheimer ranks 151 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Christian Bach (1735), Franz von Papen (1879), Walter Model (1891), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Frederick William III of Prussia (1770), and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714). After him are Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Friedrich Ebert (1871), Pope Joan (null), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), Georg Simmel (1858), and Max Müller (1823).
1735 - 1782
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 145
1879 - 1969
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 146
1891 - 1945
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 147
1805 - 1859
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 148
1770 - 1840
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 149
1714 - 1788
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 150
1864 - 1915
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 151
1776 - 1841
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 152
1871 - 1925
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 153
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 154
1900 - 2002
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 155
1858 - 1918
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 156
1823 - 1900
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 157
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), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Franz Mesmer (1734), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Theodor Morell (1886), and Werner Forssmann (1904).
1843 - 1910
HPI: 80.51
Rank: 1
1911 - 1979
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 2
1864 - 1915
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 3
1494 - 1555
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 4
1755 - 1843
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 5
1856 - 1926
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 6
1883 - 1970
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 7
1734 - 1815
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 8
1895 - 1964
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 9
1884 - 1951
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 10
1886 - 1948
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 11
1904 - 1979
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 12