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Frederic Lewy

1885 - 1950

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Fritz Heinrich Lewy (; January 28, 1885 – October 5, 1950), known in his later years as Frederic Henry Lewey, was a German-born American neurologist. He is best known for the discovery of Lewy bodies, which are a characteristic indicator of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Lewy was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, on January 28, 1885. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederic Lewy has received more than 81,186 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Frederic Lewy is the 498th most popular physician, the 3,900th most popular biography from Germany and the 79th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Frederic Lewy ranks 498 out of 502. Before him are Ludwig Traube, Thomas Francis Wade, Ernest Starling, Bennet Omalu, Anders Tegnell, and Friedrich Robert Faehlmann. After him are Guy Patin, Noël Martin Joseph de Necker, Nikolay Burdenko, Friedrich von Berchtold, Jean Alexandre Barré, and Emil Zuckerkandl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Frederic Lewy ranks 160. Before him are Anna Hübler, Mae Murray, Anna Louise Strong, Alfréd Haar, Alexander Tairov, and Sophia Parnok. After him are Iuliu Hossu, Johannes de Jong, István Somodi, Jaafar Al-Askari, Nils Hellsten, and Charles Daniels. Among people deceased in 1950, Frederic Lewy ranks 127. Before him are Joanni Perronet, Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones, Lothrop Stoddard, Ivan Shmelyov, Albert Ehrenstein, and Alexander Tairov. After him are Giovanni Giorgi, Charles Gmelin, Frederick Twort, José Berraondo, Maurice Costello, and Luise Fleck.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederic Lewy ranks 3,900 out of 6,142. Before him are Princess Caroline of Great Britain (1713), Ellen Preis (1912), Johann Beckmann (1739), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), Leopold Andrian (1875), and Heinz Kwiatkowski (1926). After him are Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815), Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773), Oskar von Miller (1855), Fritz Julius Kuhn (1896), Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805), and Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (1914).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Frederic Lewy ranks 79. Before him are Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783), Caspar Peucer (1525), Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839), Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885), Ludwig Aschoff (1866), and Ruth Pfau (1929). After him are Wilhelm Kühne (1837), Gustav Hartlaub (1814), Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714), Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff (1807), Ferdinand von Mueller (1825), and Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814).

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