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Frances Oldham Kelsey

1914 - 2015

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Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey (née Oldham; July 24, 1914 – August 7, 2015) was a Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician. As a reviewer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), she refused to authorize thalidomide for market because she had concerns about the lack of evidence regarding the drug's safety. Her concerns proved to be justified when it was shown that thalidomide caused serious birth defects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Oldham Kelsey has received more than 1,057,575 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Frances Oldham Kelsey is the 341st most popular physician (up from 344th in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Canada (up from 153rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Canadian Physician.

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  • 30

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  • 4.26

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  • 3.62

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Frances Oldham Kelsey ranks 341 out of 502. Before her are Gregg L. Semenza, Justinus Kerner, Ewald Hering, Michael Maier, Moritz Kaposi, and Richard Axel. After her are Petrus Camper, Carlos Chagas, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Johann Peter Frank, Carlos Finlay, and Johann Jakob Scheuchzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Frances Oldham Kelsey ranks 133. Before her are Kenny Clarke, Yahya Khan, Martin Ritt, Taisen Deshimaru, Jens Otto Krag, and Budd Schulberg. After her are Lakshmi Sahgal, Brunó Ferenc Straub, Infante Gonzalo of Spain, George Tabori, Edmund Conen, and Taizo Kawamoto. Among people deceased in 2015, Frances Oldham Kelsey ranks 130. Before her are Judith Malina, Robert Conquest, Gene Amdahl, James Aldridge, Wim Ruska, and Diana Douglas. After her are Doris Hart, Moses Malone, E. L. Doctorow, Phil Taylor, André Glucksmann, and Jørgen Ingmann.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Frances Oldham Kelsey ranks 152 out of 1,350. Before her are Eugene Levy (1946), Joe Shuster (1914), Deanna Durbin (1921), Raymond Burr (1917), Marie Dressler (1868), and Arthur Hiller (1923). After her are Chris Benoit (1967), Robert D. Hare (1934), Shulamith Firestone (1945), James Doohan (1920), Brian Mulroney (1939), and Terry Sawchuk (1929).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Canada

Among physicians born in Canada, Frances Oldham Kelsey ranks 7. Before her are Frederick Banting (1891), Oswald Avery (1877), Charles Brenton Huggins (1901), David H. Hubel (1926), Norman Bethune (1890), and William Osler (1849). After her are Édouard Gagnon (1918), Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929), and James Heilman (1979).

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