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Didier Raoult

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Didier Raoult (French pronunciation: [didje ʁa.ul(t)]; born 13 March 1952) is a retired French physician and microbiologist specialising in infectious diseases. He taught about infectious diseases at the Faculty of Medicine of Aix-Marseille University (AMU), and in 1984, created the Rickettsia Unit of the university. From 2008 to 2022, Raoult was the director of the Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Didier Raoult has received more than 736,872 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Didier Raoult is the 600th most popular physician (down from 433rd in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Senegal (down from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Senegalese Physician.

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  • 46.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Didier Raoult ranks 600 out of 726. Before him are Edith Farkas, Edzard Ernst, John Jeffries, Julieta Lanteri, Greene Vardiman Black, and John Ostrom. After him are Harry Klinefelter, Gabriele Possanner, Yevgeniy Chazov, Tomisaku Kawasaki, Astley Cooper, and Arvo Ylppö.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Didier Raoult ranks 411. Before him are Ján Kubiš, Vaughan Jones, Didi Senft, Jim Wetherbee, Manuel Göttsching, and David Richards. After him are Mustafa Cerić, Michael Behe, Jorge Luis Pinto, Brian Gottfried, David Garrison, and Celia Imrie.

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In Senegal

Among people born in Senegal, Didier Raoult ranks 27 out of 138. Before him are Ba Mamadou Mbaré (1946), Safi Faye (1943), Théodore-Adrien Sarr (1936), El Hadji Diouf (1981), Aminata Sow Fall (1941), and Ibrahim Ba (1973). After him are Habib Thiam (1933), Guirane N'Daw (1984), Birago Diop (1908), Jacques Diouf (1938), Baaba Maal (1953), and Khalilou Fadiga (1974).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Senegal

Among physicians born in Senegal, Didier Raoult ranks 1. After him are Marie Senghor Basse (1930).

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