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Emil du Bois-Reymond

1818 - 1896

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Emil Heinrich du Bois-Reymond (7 November 1818 – 26 December 1896) was a German physiologist, the co-discoverer of nerve action potential, and the developer of experimental electrophysiology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil du Bois-Reymond has received more than 127,960 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Emil du Bois-Reymond is the 211th most popular physician (up from 241st in 2019), the 1,432nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,668th in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Emil du Bois-Reymond ranks 211 out of 502. Before him are Andrea Cesalpino, Johann Weyer, Guy de Chauliac, Leonhart Fuchs, Nicolaes Tulp, and Norman Bethune. After him are Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Li Shizhen, Carl von Rokitansky, Paul of Aegina, Hieronymus Fabricius, and Rolf M. Zinkernagel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Emil du Bois-Reymond ranks 31. Before him are Amalia of Oldenburg, Richard Jordan Gatling, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Hermann Kolbe, Tewodros II, and Zachris Topelius. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin, Francesco Crispi, Heinrich Göbel, Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Max Joseph von Pettenkofer. Among people deceased in 1896, Emil du Bois-Reymond ranks 24. Before him are Louis-Jules Trochu, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, John Langdon Down, Richard Avenarius, Frederic Leighton, and Prince Henry of Battenberg. After him are Ichiyō Higuchi, Ernst Engel, Maurice de Hirsch, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Emma Darwin, and Ante Starčević.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Emil du Bois-Reymond ranks 1,432 out of 6,142. Before him are Hannah Höch (1889), Wilhelm Müller (1794), Jupp Derwall (1927), Oskar Gröning (1921), Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern (1890), and Frederick II, Elector Palatine (1482). After him are Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602), Johann Schein (1586), Thomas Abbt (1738), Ernst Barkmann (1919), Hartmann Schedel (1440), and Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Emil du Bois-Reymond ranks 31. Before him are Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), August von Wassermann (1866), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Franciscus Sylvius (1614), and Leonhart Fuchs (1501). After him are Horst Schumann (1906), Hans Berger (1873), Carl Ludwig (1816), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), August Oetker (1862), and Adolf Eugen Fick (1829).

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