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Denton Cooley

1920 - 2016

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Denton Arthur Cooley (August 22, 1920 – November 18, 2016) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at clinical partner Baylor St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Denton Cooley has received more than 775,752 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Denton Cooley is the 641st most popular physician (down from 574th in 2019), the 8,831st most popular biography from United States (down from 8,723rd in 2019) and the 79th most popular American Physician.

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  • 780k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Denton Cooley ranks 641 out of 726. Before him are George E. P. Box, Robert Atkins, Thomas Lewis, Edward Angle, Maria Vorontsova, and Bernhard Zondek. After him are Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson, Almroth Wright, Paul Möhring, Eugène Olivier, Angeliki Panagiotatou, and Dean Mahomed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Denton Cooley ranks 370. Before him are Usha Mehta, Jack Rowley, Shelly Manne, Guinn Smith, Lucidio Sentimenti, and Cecilia Colledge. After him are John Paul Stevens, Hans Gerschwiler, Osamu Hayaishi, Georg Leber, J. J. C. Smart, and Bohumil Kudrna. Among people deceased in 2016, Denton Cooley ranks 441. Before him are Larry Drake, Gisela May, Wim van der Voort, Piers Sellers, Bobby Hutcherson, and Guillaume Bieganski. After him are Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, Francisco Flores Pérez, Jean-Marie Doré, John Urry, Kazimierz Barburski, and Tammy Grimes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Denton Cooley ranks 8,831 out of 20,380. Before him are Ann Rule (1931), Bobby Hutcherson (1941), Viola Dana (1897), Sherman Hemsley (1938), Jack Parsons (1914), and Alexandra Breckenridge (1982). After him are Michael McDonald (1952), Barret Oliver (1973), Kelly Rowland (1981), Allen Toussaint (1938), Gabrielle Union (1972), and Angus King (1944).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Denton Cooley ranks 79. Before him are Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901), Jill Stein (1950), William C. Gorgas (1854), William H. Welch (1850), Robert Atkins (1930), and Edward Angle (1855). After him are Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878), John Heysham Gibbon (1903), James Ewing (1866), Thomas Starzl (1926), Priscilla Chan (1985), and Leila Denmark (1898).

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