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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

1926 - 2004

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, and author of the internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross model". In 1970, Kübler-Ross delivered the Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard University, focusing on her book, On Death and Dying. By July 1982, Kübler-Ross had taught 125,000 students in death and dying courses in colleges, seminaries, medical schools, hospitals, and social-work institutions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has received more than 1,468,736 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is the 59th most popular physician (down from 44th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 29th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Physician.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is most famous for her five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ranks 59 out of 726. Before her are Robert Bellarmine, René Laennec, Djer, Philippe Pinel, Gerhard Domagk, and Emil Theodor Kocher. After her are Karl Brandt, Hans Asperger, William P. Murphy, Johannes Fibiger, Francesco Redi, and Shirō Ishii.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ranks 24. Before her are Jerry Lewis, Ben Roy Mottelson, Nuon Chea, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Hugh Hefner, and Prince Claus of the Netherlands. After her are Paul Bocuse, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Donald A. Glaser, Ivan Illich, Leopoldo Galtieri, and George Habash. Among people deceased in 2004, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ranks 17. Before her are Czesław Miłosz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Ustinov, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Susan Sontag, and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. After her are Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Christopher Reeve, Akhmad Kadyrov, Janet Leigh, Helmut Newton, and Maurice Wilkins.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ranks 46 out of 1,015. Before her are Eugen Bleuler (1857), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Angelica Kauffman (1741), Felix Bloch (1905), Albert II, Duke of Austria (1298), and Emil Theodor Kocher (1841). After her are Benjamin Constant (1767), Auguste Piccard (1884), Johannes Itten (1888), Robert Walser (1878), Hans Albert Einstein (1904), and Niklaus Wirth (1934).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ranks 5. Before her are Paracelsus (1493), Franz Mesmer (1734), Eugen Bleuler (1857), and Emil Theodor Kocher (1841). After her are Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), and Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867).

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