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Duchenne de Boulogne

1806 - 1875

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Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) (September 17, 1806, in Boulogne-sur-Mer – September 15, 1875, in Paris) was a French neurologist who revived Luigi Galvani's research and greatly advanced the science of electrophysiology. The era of modern neurology developed from Duchenne's understanding of neural pathways and his diagnostic innovations including deep tissue biopsy, nerve conduction tests (NCS), and clinical photography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Duchenne de Boulogne has received more than 185,467 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Duchenne de Boulogne is the 245th most popular physician (down from 220th in 2019), the 1,917th most popular biography from France (down from 1,637th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Physician.

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  • 1.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Duchenne de Boulogne ranks 245 out of 726. Before him are Hans Berger, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Randy Schekman, Marcel Petiot, Frederik Ruysch, and Caspar Friedrich Wolff. After him are Ernst Gräfenberg, Henry Heimlich, Robert Lefkowitz, François Magendie, Horst Schumann, and Sun Simiao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Duchenne de Boulogne ranks 20. Before him are Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, Charles Gleyre, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play. After him are Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Antoine Wiertz, John A. Roebling, William, Duke of Brunswick, Karl Friedrich Mohr, and Juliette Drouet. Among people deceased in 1875, Duchenne de Boulogne ranks 26. Before him are Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Jacques Paul Migne, Francis V, Duke of Modena, Heinrich Schwabe, Tristan Corbière, and Eduard Mörike. After him are Friedrich Albert Lange, Svetozar Marković, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Henri Labrouste, and Gabriel García Moreno.

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In France

Among people born in France, Duchenne de Boulogne ranks 1,917 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Hidalgo (1933), Paul Abadie (1812), Hugh Magnus (1007), Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano (1721), Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665), and Jean-Louis Schlesser (1948). After him are Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud (1753), Claude Brasseur (1936), Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron (1731), Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (1213), Albert Sarraut (1872), and Guillaume Bigourdan (1851).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Duchenne de Boulogne ranks 28. Before him are Paul Gachet (1828), Albert Calmette (1863), Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757), Bernard Kouchner (1939), Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772), and Marcel Petiot (1897). After him are François Magendie (1783), Édouard Séguin (1812), Edmond Locard (1877), Guillaume Dupuytren (1777), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), and Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757).

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