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Bennet Omalu

1968 - Today

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Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu (born September 30, 1968) is a Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players while working at the Allegheny County coroner's office in Pittsburgh. He later became the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, California, and is a professor at the University of California, Davis, department of medical pathology and laboratory medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bennet Omalu has received more than 7,445,753 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Bennet Omalu is the 653rd most popular physician (down from 494th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Nigeria (down from 29th in 2019) and the most popular Nigerian Physician.

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  • 7.4M

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  • 52.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Bennet Omalu ranks 653 out of 726. Before him are Dean Mahomed, Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Sophia Jex-Blake, Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet, Divna Veković, and John Heysham Gibbon. After him are James Ewing, Narendra Dabholkar, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Mary Putnam Jacobi, William Stokes, and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Bennet Omalu ranks 306. Before him are Juan Martín Maldacena, John Ortiz, Kristin Chenoweth, David Hewlett, Tanja Ribič, and Bärbel Bas. After him are Robin Li, Hideo Nomo, Kiyohiko Azuma, Akihiko Hoshide, Princess Delphine of Belgium, and Leonid Slutsky.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Bennet Omalu ranks 52 out of 309. Before him are Abubakar Shekau (1974), Finidi George (1971), Ernest Shonekan (1936), Victor Ikpeba (1973), Sunday Oliseh (1974), and Uche Okechukwu (1967). After him are Stephen Keshi (1962), Anthony Olubunmi Okogie (1936), Israel Adesanya (1989), Peter Rufai (1963), Buchi Emecheta (1944), and Celestine Babayaro (1978).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Nigeria

Among physicians born in Nigeria, Bennet Omalu ranks 1. 

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