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Antonius Musa

63 BC - 14

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Antonius Musa (Ancient Greek: Ἀντώνιος Μούσας, Antṓnios Moúsas) was a Greek botanist and the Roman Emperor Augustus's physician; Antonius was a freedman who received freeborn status along with other honours. In the year 23 BC, when Augustus was seriously ill, Musa cured the illness with cold compresses and became immediately famous. Musa, the plant group which includes the banana, the plantain and numerous other species, was apparently named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonius Musa has received more than 49,753 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Antonius Musa is the 547th most popular physician.

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  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Antonius Musa ranks 547 out of 726. Before him are Thomas Horsfield, Paolo Macchiarini, Nikolay Gamaleya, Łucja Frey, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, and Franz Josef Ruprecht. After him are Jeffrey Ullman, Thomas Erastus, Serenus Sammonicus, Mustafa Barghouti, Thomas Francis Wade, and Bidhan Chandra Roy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 63 BC, Antonius Musa ranks 5. Before him are Augustus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Pacorus I, and Didymus Chalcenterus.  Among people deceased in 14, Antonius Musa ranks 7. Before him are Augustus, Julia the Elder, Agrippa Postumus, Parthenius of Nicaea, Lucius Aemilius Paullus, and Paullus Fabius Maximus. After him is Marcus Plautius Silvanus.

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