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David Cooper

1931 - 1986

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David Graham Cooper (1931 in Cape Town, South Africa – 29 July 1986 in Paris, France) was a South African-born psychiatrist and theorist who was prominent in the anti-psychiatry movement. Cooper graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1955. R.D. Laing claimed that Cooper underwent Soviet training to prepare him as an anti-apartheid communist revolutionary, but after completing his course he never returned to South Africa out of fear that the Bureau of State Security would eliminate him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Cooper has received more than 26,770 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). David Cooper is the 422nd most popular physician (down from 421st in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 61st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Physician.

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  • 17

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  • 1.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, David Cooper ranks 422 out of 726Before him are Shinobu Ishihara, Harvey Cushing, Luca Ghini, José Gregorio Hernández, Helen B. Taussig, and Wilhelm Stekel. After him are William Kaelin Jr., Giorgio Biandrata, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Kiyoshi Shiga, Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, and Ibn Butlan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, David Cooper ranks 236Before him are Janosch, Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, Tab Hunter, Ryuzo Hiraki, Michel Deville, and Georgy Grechko. After him are Duško Gojković, Allen Klein, Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi III, Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Charlie Logg, and Ingvar Wixell. Among people deceased in 1986, David Cooper ranks 120Before him are Oscar Zariski, Josef Kammhuber, Anatoly Marchenko, Helen B. Taussig, Hoàng Văn Thái, and Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari. After him are Robert Stevenson, Géza von Radványi, Vasily Ignatenko, Gregory Jarvis, Mary Eristavi, and Adolfo Baloncieri.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, David Cooper ranks 55 out of 454Before him are Ronald Harwood (1934), Christiaan de Wet (1854), Frances Ames (1920), Piet Joubert (1834), Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941), and Bruce Grobbelaar (1957). After him are Trevor Jones (1949), Reggie Walker (1889), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), Cyril Cusack (1910), Dave Matthews (1967), and Abdullah Ibrahim (1934).

Among PHYSICIANS In South Africa

Among physicians born in South Africa, David Cooper ranks 2Before him are Christiaan Barnard (1922).