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Eva Klein

1925 - 2025

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Eva Klein (née Eva Fischer; 22 January 1925 – 19 January 2025) was a Hungarian-Swedish scientist. Klein worked at the Karolinska Institute since leaving Hungary in 1947. She is regarded as a founder of cancer immunology. Her life and career choices as a young Jewish woman were constrained by discrimination, and she survived the late stages of German occupation in hiding. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eva Klein has received more than 41,367 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Eva Klein is the 448th most popular physician (up from 534th in 2019), the 374th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 496th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Hungarian Physician.

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  • 41k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Eva Klein ranks 448 out of 726. Before her are Diocles of Carystus, Peter C. Doherty, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Bernard de Jussieu, William Hunter, and Giovanni Battista Grassi. After her are Constantin von Economo, Harry Seeley, Crawford Long, Frances Oldham Kelsey, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, and Giovanni Maria Lancisi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Eva Klein ranks 231. Before her are Ignacio López Tarso, Claude Pinoteau, Cathy Berberian, Jacques Sernas, Olle Hellbom, and Louis Nirenberg. After her are John Tate, Doris Roberts, Jacques Fatton, Kirill Lavrov, Luis Herrera Campins, and Konrad Wolf. Among people deceased in 2025, Eva Klein ranks 43. Before her are Lee Shau-kee, Akinori Nakayama, Thanin Kraivichien, Mauricio Funes, Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Friðrik Ólafsson. After her are David Vunagi, Robert Hübner, Clive Revill, Renato Corsetti, Fabio Cudicini, and Eddie Jordan.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Eva Klein ranks 374 out of 1,077. Before her are István Örkény (1912), Lili Kraus (1903), Kálmán Darányi (1886), Kálmán Mészöly (1941), Árpád Weisz (1896), and István Kertész (1929). After her are Pál Losonczi (1919), Imre Makovecz (1935), Charles Vidor (1900), Cornell Capa (1918), László Cseh (1910), and Antal Szalay (1912).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Hungary

Among physicians born in Hungary, Eva Klein ranks 7. Before her are Ignaz Semmelweis (1818), Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Gabor Maté (1944), Thomas Szasz (1920), and Moritz Kaposi (1837). After her are Emil Zuckerkandl (1849), Edith Farkas (1921), Gabriele Possanner (1860), Vilma Hugonnai (1847), and Jenő Kamuti (1937).

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