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Elizabeth Blackwell

1821 - 1910

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Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was an Anglo-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social reformer, and was a pioneer in promoting education for women in medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Blackwell has received more than 1,942,340 page views. Her biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Elizabeth Blackwell is the 79th most popular physician (up from 103rd in 2019), the 436th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 554th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Physician.

Elizabeth Blackwell is most famous for being the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States.

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  • 65.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Elizabeth Blackwell ranks 79 out of 726. Before her are Stanley Cohen, Jacques Rogge, Selman Waksman, August Krogh, Theodor Morell, and Louis Auguste Blanqui. After her are Peter Canisius, Albert Sabin, François Duvalier, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Corneille Heymans, and Cornelius Jansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Elizabeth Blackwell ranks 8. Before her are Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Virchow, August Schleicher, and Lola Montez. After her are Auguste Mariette, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Louis Vuitton, Richard Francis Burton, Pauline Viardot, and Johann Josef Loschmidt. Among people deceased in 1910, Elizabeth Blackwell ranks 19. Before her are Mily Balakirev, Marius Petipa, Johann Gottfried Galle, Luigi Lucheni, Léon Walras, and Huo Yuanjia. After her are Giovanni Schiaparelli, Jules Renard, Pauline Viardot, An Jung-geun, Stanislao Cannizzaro, and Karl Lueger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Blackwell ranks 436 out of 8,785. Before her are Sam Neill (1947), John Bowlby (1907), John Donne (1572), Ralph Fiennes (1962), Isaac Barrow (1631), and Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861). After her are Richard Attenborough (1923), Ronald Coase (1910), Cary Grant (1904), Marie of Romania (1875), Charles Dance (1946), and Robert Falcon Scott (1868).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Blackwell ranks 3. Before her are Edward Jenner (1749), and William Harvey (1578). After her are Joseph Lister (1827), James Parkinson (1755), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), John Snow (1813), Edgar Adrian (1889), James Black (1924), John Langdon Down (1828), Frederick Griffith (1879), and Alan Hodgkin (1914).

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