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George H. Hitchings

1905 - 1998

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George Herbert Hitchings (April 18, 1905 – February 27, 1998) was an American medical doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment", Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George H. Hitchings has received more than 108,006 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). George H. Hitchings is the 151st most popular physician (down from 150th in 2019), the 1,140th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,153rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, George H. Hitchings ranks 151 out of 726. Before him are E. Donnall Thomas, Psusennes II, Robin Warren, Johann Joachim Becher, Bernardino of Siena, and Albert of Riga. After him are Merit-Ptah, Francysk Skaryna, Joseph Calasanz, Trota of Salerno, James Black, and Carl Ludwig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, George H. Hitchings ranks 39. Before him are Max Schmeling, Otto Preminger, Dhyan Chand, Nikolai Tikhonov, Enrique Ballestrero, and Franz Ziereis. After him are Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Pierre Gemayel, Fred Trump, Severo Ochoa, Takashi Shimura, and Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1998, George H. Hitchings ranks 28. Before him are Julien Green, Vasily Arkhipov, Otto Kretschmer, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Linda McCartney, and Alfred Schnittke. After him are André Weil, Lúcio Costa, Kenichi Fukui, Galina Ulanova, Bob Kane, and Derek Barton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George H. Hitchings ranks 1,140 out of 20,380. Before him are Hugh David Politzer (1949), Richard Matheson (1926), Gordon Parks (1912), James Cagney (1899), William Styron (1925), and Charles Cooley (1864). After him are Jean Webster (1876), Paul D. Boyer (1918), Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794), Edith Wharton (1862), Shelley Winters (1920), and Steve Reeves (1926).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, George H. Hitchings ranks 16. Before him are Jonas Salk (1914), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), Joseph Erlanger (1874), Harvey J. Alter (1935), and E. Donnall Thomas (1920). After him are George Whipple (1878), Robin Cook (1940), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Joseph Murray (1919), Louis Ignarro (1941), and Peter Agre (1949).

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