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Charles Best

1899 - 1978

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Charles Herbert Best (February 27, 1899 – March 31, 1978), was an American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin with Frederick Banting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Best has received more than 13,974 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Charles Best is the 462nd most popular physician (down from 303rd in 2019), the 4,679th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,854th in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 14k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Charles Best ranks 462 out of 726. Before him are Anastasia Golovina, Ernst von Bergmann, Robert Liston, Kazimierz Bein, Noël Martin Joseph de Necker, and John Crawfurd. After him are Fernando J. Corbató, Friedrich von Huene, Arnold Pick, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Hiroshi Nakajima, and James Young Simpson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Charles Best ranks 169. Before him are Rudolf Svensson, Silvestre Revueltas, Bernhard Rogge, Aleksandr Deyneka, Helge Ingstad, and Anni Albers. After him are Harold Osborn, Edward Chamberlin, Kamala Nehru, Haddon Sundblom, Weegee, and Anselmo Alliegro y Milá. Among people deceased in 1978, Charles Best ranks 131. Before him are Franz Bäke, Jerzy Kuryłowicz, Bob Crane, Artem Alikhanian, Robert Menzies, and Liane Augustin. After him are Claude Dauphin, Gene Tunney, Jean Nicolas, Alexander Gerschenkron, Lon L. Fuller, and Georges Speicher.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Best ranks 4,679 out of 20,380. Before him are Scott Travis (1961), Amy Lee (1981), John Ashbery (1927), Michael Kors (1959), Robert Z'Dar (1950), and Ryan Murphy (1965). After him are Carey Lowell (1961), Otto Warmbier (1994), Walter Bedell Smith (1895), Richard Yates (1926), Radia Perlman (1951), and Ruth Teitelbaum (1924).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Charles Best ranks 50. Before him are Philip Showalter Hench (1896), William Stewart Halsted (1852), Harvey Cushing (1869), Helen B. Taussig (1898), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), and Crawford Long (1815). After him are Fernando J. Corbató (1926), George Huntington (1850), Benjamin Rush (1745), Frank H. Netter (1906), Vivien Thomas (1910), and Alfred Blalock (1899).

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