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E. Donnall Thomas

1920 - 2012

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Edward Donnall "Don" Thomas (March 15, 1920 – October 20, 2012) was an American physician, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 1990 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph E. Murray for the development of cell and organ transplantation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. Donnall Thomas has received more than 164,642 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. E. Donnall Thomas is the 145th most popular physician (up from 154th in 2019), the 1,089th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,209th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, E. Donnall Thomas ranks 145 out of 726. Before him are Albrecht von Haller, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Theodor Billroth, Joseph Erlanger, Baruj Benacerraf, and Harvey J. Alter. After him are Psusennes II, Robin Warren, Johann Joachim Becher, Bernardino of Siena, Albert of Riga, and George H. Hitchings.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, E. Donnall Thomas ranks 49. Before him are Mickey Rooney, Michèle Morgan, George Porter, Prem Tinsulanonda, Baruj Benacerraf, and Chiara Lubich. After him are Lawrence Klein, Shelley Winters, Walter Nowotny, George Armitage Miller, P. D. James, and Dave Brubeck. Among people deceased in 2012, E. Donnall Thomas ranks 42. Before him are Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Benzion Netanyahu, Lucio Dalla, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Sergey Sokolov, and Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud. After him are Carl Woese, Erland Josephson, Andrew Huxley, Stephen Covey, Rauf Denktaş, and F. Sherwood Rowland.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, E. Donnall Thomas ranks 1,089 out of 20,380. Before him are Piper Laurie (1932), Janet Yellen (1946), Mike Pence (1959), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Wesley Snipes (1962), and David Soul (1943). After him are Carl Woese (1928), Edward B. Lewis (1918), Betty Ford (1918), Jon Bon Jovi (1962), Brendan Fraser (1968), and Arthur Ashe (1943).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, E. Donnall Thomas ranks 15. Before him are Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), Jonas Salk (1914), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), Joseph Erlanger (1874), and Harvey J. Alter (1935). After him are George H. Hitchings (1905), George Whipple (1878), Robin Cook (1940), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Joseph Murray (1919), and Louis Ignarro (1941).

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