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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 261,605 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Carlos Finlay is the 346th most popular physician (down from 297th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Cuba (down from 45th in 2019) and the most popular Cuban Physician.

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  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Carlos Finlay ranks 346 out of 502. Before him are Richard Axel, Frances Oldham Kelsey, Petrus Camper, Carlos Chagas, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, and Johann Peter Frank. After him are Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, Wu Lien-teh, Nikolai Korotkov, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, and Özlem Türeci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Carlos Finlay ranks 30. Before him are Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Eliza Lynch, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Marko Vovchok, and Alfred Clebsch. After him are Eugen Langen, Theodor Meynert, Zacharie Astruc, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Kâmil Pasha, and Peter Waage. Among people deceased in 1915, Carlos Finlay ranks 53. Before him are Theodor Boveri, Joe Hill, Józef Brandt, Mubarak Al-Sabah, Béla Kiss, and Adolphe Pégoud. After him are Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Arthur Hughes, Pierre-Émile Martin, Daniel Varoujan, Booker T. Washington, and Eugène Jansson.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Carlos Finlay ranks 56 out of 248. Before him are Juanita Castro (1933), Arnaldo Ochoa (1930), Dámaso Berenguer (1873), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), Mongo Santamaría (1917), and Silvio Rodríguez (1946). After him are Desi Arnaz (1917), Alberto Bayo (1892), Félix Rodríguez (1941), Rita Marley (1946), Ramón Fonst (1883), and Orlando Martínez (1944).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Cuba

Among physicians born in Cuba, Carlos Finlay ranks 1. 

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