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Carlos Chagas

1879 - 1934

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Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas (Portuguese: [ˈkaʁluz ʒustʃĩniˈɐ̃nu ʁiˈbejɾu ˈʃaɡɐs]; July 9, 1879 – November 8, 1934), was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and microbiologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. Most well known for the discovery of an eponymous protozoal infection called Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis, he also discovered the causative fungi of the pneumocystis pneumonia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Chagas has received more than 115,717 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Carlos Chagas is the 343rd most popular physician (down from 314th in 2019), the 199th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 171st in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Physician.

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  • 53.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Carlos Chagas ranks 343 out of 502. Before him are Ewald Hering, Michael Maier, Moritz Kaposi, Richard Axel, Frances Oldham Kelsey, and Petrus Camper. After him are Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Johann Peter Frank, Carlos Finlay, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, and Wu Lien-teh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Carlos Chagas ranks 90. Before him are Joe Hill, Aleksandër Moisiu, Patrick Pearse, Joseph Canteloube, Sándor Garbai, and Thành Thái. After him are Johan Nygaardsvold, Guido Fubini, Hu Hanmin, Wu Lien-teh, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, and Othon Friesz. Among people deceased in 1934, Carlos Chagas ranks 73. Before him are Kate Sheppard, Ivy Lee, Ferdinand von Bredow, Otakar Ševčík, Marie Dressler, and Paul Gustav Fischer. After him are Infante Gonzalo of Spain, Paul Ulrich Villard, Rudolf Maister, Isaac Israëls, Alimardan Topchubashov, and Lauri Ingman.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Carlos Chagas ranks 199 out of 2,067. Before him are Jorge Ben (1942), Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales (1841), Roberto Dinamite (1954), Glauber Rocha (1939), Hércules Brito Ruas (1939), and Dida (1934). After him are Lúcio (1978), Alexandre Pato (1989), Carlos Kaiser (1963), Rodrigo Santoro (1975), Nilo Peçanha (1867), and Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Brazil

Among physicians born in Brazil, Carlos Chagas ranks 1. After him are Zilda Arns (1934) and Oswaldo Cruz (1872).

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