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Carlos Finlay

1833 - 1915

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Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3, 1833 – August 20, 1915) was a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes Aedes aegypti. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Finlay has received more than 276,764 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Carlos Finlay is the 328th most popular physician (up from 346th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Cuba (up from 56th in 2019) and the most popular Cuban Physician.

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  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Carlos Finlay ranks 328 out of 726. Before him are William Cullen, Dorothea Erxleben, Howard Florey, James Curtis Hepburn, Willi Graf, and Clarke Abel. After him are Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Tomáš Špidlík, Eugene Botkin, Gabor Maté, Jack Kevorkian, and William Bates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Carlos Finlay ranks 30. Before him are Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Marko Vovchok, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Eliza Lynch, and Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium. After him are Peter Waage, Manuel González Flores, Alfred Clebsch, Félix Bracquemond, Theodor Meynert, and Lazarus Fuchs. Among people deceased in 1915, Carlos Finlay ranks 47. Before him are Sandford Fleming, Anatoly Stessel, Friedrich Loeffler, Nagakura Shinpachi, Danilo Ilić, and Akaki Tsereteli. After him are Pierre-Émile Martin, Karl Lamprecht, Otto Weddigen, Johann Joseph Abert, Józef Brandt, and Walter Crane.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Carlos Finlay ranks 47 out of 300. Before him are Leo Brouwer (1939), Bebo Valdés (1918), José-Maria de Heredia (1842), Rita Marley (1946), Ernesto Lecuona (1895), and Manuel Urrutia Lleó (1901). After him are Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), Rubén González (1919), Steven Bauer (1956), Silvio Rodríguez (1946), Camila Cabello (1997), and Dámaso Berenguer (1873).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Cuba

Among physicians born in Cuba, Carlos Finlay ranks 1. 

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