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Eugene Lazowski

1913 - 2006

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Eugene Lazowski born Eugeniusz Sławomir Łazowski (1913 in Częstochowa, Poland – December 16, 2006 in Eugene, Oregon, United States) was a Polish medical doctor who saved thousands of people during World War II by creating a fake epidemic which played on German phobias about hygiene. He also used his position as a doctor treating people travelling through a nearby train station to conceal his supply of medicine to Jews in the local ghetto, which backed on to his home. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene Lazowski has received more than 667,886 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Eugene Lazowski is the 510th most popular physician, the 861st most popular biography from Poland and the 20th most popular Polish Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 670k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Eugene Lazowski ranks 510 out of 726. Before him are Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Frank H. Netter, Ugo Cerletti, Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, Vivien Thomas, and Kurt Blome. After him are Oskar Minkowski, Robert Knox, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Anthony Carlisle, Gazi Yaşargil, and Wladimir Aïtoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Eugene Lazowski ranks 209. Before him are Gangubai Hangal, Lilian Jackson Braun, Sándor Weöres, René Llense, Ad Reinhardt, and Yakov Zak. After him are Richard Helms, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Harald Edelstam, Yaşar Doğu, Jacqueline de Romilly, and Igor Bondarevsky. Among people deceased in 2006, Eugene Lazowski ranks 205. Before him are Rainer Barzel, Paul Arizin, Fernando Romeo Lucas García, Francisco Fernández Ochoa, André Schwarz-Bart, and Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. After him are Jean-Louis de Rambures, Jimmy Johnstone, Pjetër Arbnori, Ray Barretto, Miroslav Brozović, and Bertil Antonsson.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Eugene Lazowski ranks 861 out of 1,694. Before him are Anna Dymna (1951), Ulli Lommel (1944), Jerzy Żuławski (1874), Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799), Jacek Gmoch (1939), and Albert Chmielowski (1846). After him are Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870), Jurek Becker (1937), Henryk Sławik (1894), Ignacy Potocki (1750), Martin Rathke (1793), and Stanislaus Papczyński (1631).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Eugene Lazowski ranks 20. Before him are Robert Remak (1815), Wilhelm Fliess (1858), Ludwik Rajchman (1881), Kazimierz Bein (1872), Max Gerson (1881), and Zofia Zamenhof (1889). After him are Adam Zamenhof (1888), Joseph Schröter (1837), Ludwig Traube (1818), Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer (1858), and Bernhard Zondek (1891).

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