Physician

Emil Theodor Kocher

1841 - 1917

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His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2024). Emil Theodor Kocher is the 58th most popular physician (up from 59th in 2024), the 32nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 45th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Physician.

Emil Theodor Kocher was a Swiss surgeon who is most famous for his discovery of the bacterial cause of peptic ulcers.

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Among Physicians

Among physicians, Emil Theodor Kocher ranks 58 out of 726. Before him are Alexis Carrel, Emil von Behring, Joseph Murray, Peter C. Doherty, Gabor Maté, and Emil Kraepelin. After him are Charles Nicolle, Thutmose IV, Philippe Pinel, Samuel Hahnemann, Gerhard Domagk, and Jean-Martin Charcot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Emil Theodor Kocher ranks 11. Before him are Berthe Morisot, Nicholas I of Montenegro, Georges Clemenceau, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Itō Hirobumi, and Otto Wagner. After him are Frédéric Bazille, Henri Fayol, Henry Morton Stanley, Félix Faure, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Armand Fallières. Among people deceased in 1917, Emil Theodor Kocher ranks 12. Before him are L. L. Zamenhof, Liliʻuokalani, Eduard Buchner, Adolf von Baeyer, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, and Emil von Behring. After him are Edward Burnett Tylor, Buffalo Bill, Franz Brentano, Dragutin Dimitrijević, John William Waterhouse, and Ludwig Minkus.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Emil Theodor Kocher ranks 32 out of NaN. Before him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Conrad Gessner (1516), Bruno Ganz (1941), Arnold Böcklin (1827), Albert Hofmann (1906), and Jacob Burckhardt (1818). After him are Joan Gamper (1877), Carlo Maderno (1556), Felix Bloch (1905), Franz Mesmer (1734), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), and Paul Hermann Müller (1899).

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Among Physicians In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Emil Theodor Kocher ranks 2. Before him are Paracelsus (1493). After him are Franz Mesmer (1734), Eugen Bleuler (1857), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), and Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867).

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