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Charles Nicolle

1866 - 1936

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Charles Jules Henri Nicolle (21 September 1866 – 28 February 1936) was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Nicolle has received more than 122,503 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Charles Nicolle is the 86th most popular physician (up from 106th in 2019), the 729th most popular biography from France (up from 823rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Physician.

Charles Nicolle is most famous for his discovery of the cause of typhus.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Charles Nicolle ranks 86 out of 726. Before him are Peter Canisius, Albert Sabin, François Duvalier, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Corneille Heymans, and Cornelius Jansen. After him are Hotepsekhemwy, Walter Rudolf Hess, George Minot, Cyril of Jerusalem, Amenmesse, and Jang-geum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Charles Nicolle ranks 15. Before him are Alfred Werner, Benedetto Croce, Giovanni Agnelli, Aby Warburg, Hans von Seeckt, and Aleksandr Ulyanov. After him are Ferruccio Busoni, Jacinto Benavente, Beatrix Potter, Lev Shestov, Anne Sullivan, and Ramsay MacDonald. Among people deceased in 1936, Charles Nicolle ranks 28. Before him are José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Louis Blériot, Buenaventura Durruti, Ottorino Respighi, Hans von Seeckt, and Karl Kraus. After him are Andrija Mohorovičić, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Róbert Bárány, Moritz Schlick, Robert E. Howard, and Anne Sullivan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Nicolle ranks 729 out of 6,770. Before him are Charlotte of Savoy (1441), René Clair (1898), Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754), Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736), Louis Le Vau (1612), and François Darlan (1881). After him are Raymond Queneau (1903), Claude of France (1499), Peter Waldo (1140), François Fénelon (1651), William Longsword (893), and John, Duke of Berry (1340).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Charles Nicolle ranks 13. Before him are Ambroise Paré (1510), Hilary of Poitiers (315), René Laennec (1781), Philippe Pinel (1745), Karl Brandt (1904), and Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805). After him are Jean Nicot (1530), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774), Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857), and Dominique Jean Larrey (1766).

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