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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 750,449 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Denton Cooley is the 575th most popular physician (down from 479th in 2019), the 8,741st most popular biography from United States (down from 7,855th in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Physician.

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  • 750k

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  • 43.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Denton Cooley ranks 575 out of 502Before him are John Ostrom, James Ewing, Priscilla Chan, Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Sophia Jex-Blake, and William C. Gorgas. After him are George E. P. Box, Jill Stein, Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, Robert Spitzer, Richard Doll, and Ran Laurie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Denton Cooley ranks 339Before him are Jacqueline Mazéas, Lucidio Sentimenti, Nida Senff, Ragnhild Hveger, Bert Williams, and Raymond Salles. After him are Jack Rowley, Sammy Lee, Laraine Day, Jose Tomas Sanchez, Michael Bates, and Man Mohan Adhikari. Among people deceased in 2016, Denton Cooley ranks 418Before him are Yngve Brodd, Joe Medicine Crow, Solomon Marcus, Berta Cáceres, Florence Henderson, and Fritz Weaver. After him are Armando Tobar, Anton Pronk, Sammy Lee, Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, Kevin Randleman, and Melvin Laird.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Denton Cooley ranks 8,741 out of 18,182Before him are Method Man (1971), Victoria Justice (1993), Norman Kerry (1894), James Cotton (1935), Herbert Boyer (1936), and Neal Schon (1954). After him are Debby Ryan (1993), Chris von Saltza (1944), George J. Mitchell (1933), Chloe Webb (1956), Eldridge Cleaver (1935), and Charles Marion Russell (1864).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Denton Cooley ranks 71Before him are Bernard Nathanson (1926), John Jeffries (1745), John Ostrom (1928), James Ewing (1866), Priscilla Chan (1985), and William C. Gorgas (1854). After him are Jill Stein (1950), Robert Spitzer (1932), Ellen S. Baker (1953), Samuel George Morton (1799), Donald Henderson (1928), and Thomas Starzl (1926).