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George Huntington

1850 - 1916

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George Huntington (April 9, 1850 – March 3, 1916) was an American physician who contributed a classic clinical description of the disease that bears his name—Huntington's disease. Huntington described this condition in the first of only two scientific papers he ever wrote. He wrote this paper when he was 22, a year after receiving his medical degree from Columbia University in New York. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Huntington has received more than 117,878 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. George Huntington is the 495th most popular physician (down from 308th in 2019), the 5,089th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,913th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Physician.

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  • 120k

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  • 57.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, George Huntington ranks 495 out of 726. Before him are Willem Johan Kolff, Guy Patin, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Zofia Zamenhof, James Paget, and Sergey Botkin. After him are Tewhida Ben Sheikh, Abella, Ernest Starling, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Adolf Meyer, and Benjamin Rush.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, George Huntington ranks 76. Before him are Adolf Martens, Anton Seidl, Augusto Righi, Spencer Gore, Woldemar Voigt, and Richard Heuberger. After him are Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau, Francesco Tamagno, Victor Laloux, Zdenko Hans Skraup, and Siri von Essen. Among people deceased in 1916, George Huntington ranks 104. Before him are Alaiza Pashkevich, Friedrich Gernsheim, James Guillaume, Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Antonin Mercié, and Josiah Royce. After him are Jane Dieulafoy, Albert Chmielowski, Charles Dawson, Ioannis Frangoudis, Ishi, and Henri Harpignies.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Huntington ranks 5,089 out of 20,380. Before him are Brent Scowcroft (1925), Vincent J. McMahon (1914), Deborah Lipstadt (1947), Tony Williams (1945), Evelyn Ashford (1957), and Charlie Mariano (1923). After him are Katherine Anne Porter (1890), Mackenyu (1996), Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893), Frank Foss (1895), Donald Keene (1922), and Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, George Huntington ranks 52. Before him are Harvey Cushing (1869), Helen B. Taussig (1898), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), Crawford Long (1815), Charles Best (1899), and Fernando J. Corbató (1926). After him are Benjamin Rush (1745), Frank H. Netter (1906), Vivien Thomas (1910), Alfred Blalock (1899), Kenneth H. Cooper (1931), and Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884).

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