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François Magendie

1783 - 1855

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François Magendie (6 October 1783 – 7 October 1855) was a French physiologist, considered a pioneer of experimental physiology. He is known for describing the foramen of Magendie. There is also a Magendie sign, a downward and inward rotation of the eye due to a lesion in the cerebellum. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Magendie has received more than 111,564 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. François Magendie is the 249th most popular physician (down from 244th in 2019), the 1,952nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,830th in 2019) and the 29th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, François Magendie ranks 249 out of 726. Before him are Frederik Ruysch, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Duchenne de Boulogne, Ernst Gräfenberg, Henry Heimlich, and Robert Lefkowitz. After him are Horst Schumann, Sun Simiao, William Chester Minor, John O'Keefe, Edward Bach, and Antonio Maria Valsalva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, François Magendie ranks 18. Before him are Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Catharina of Württemberg, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Roustam Raza, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and William Sturgeon. After him are Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Georgios Sinas, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, and Julius Klaproth. Among people deceased in 1855, François Magendie ranks 19. Before him are Amschel Mayer Rothschild, Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Antonio Rosmini, and Diponegoro. After him are Jacques Charles François Sturm, Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa, William Parry, August Leopold Crelle, Mariano Arista, and Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Magendie ranks 1,952 out of 6,770. Before him are Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721), François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy (1644), Marcel Schwob (1867), Leslie Caron (1931), Marc Augé (1935), and Henry of Flanders (1174). After him are William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (1024), Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve (1685), William Clito (1102), Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta (1866), and Jean Bodel (1165).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, François Magendie ranks 29. Before him are Albert Calmette (1863), Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757), Bernard Kouchner (1939), Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772), Marcel Petiot (1897), and Duchenne de Boulogne (1806). After him are Édouard Séguin (1812), Edmond Locard (1877), Guillaume Dupuytren (1777), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757), and Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643).

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