1885 - 1950
George Richards Minot (December 2, 1885 – February 25, 1950) was an American medical researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Minot has received more than 85,108 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). George Minot is the 108th most popular physician (up from 159th in 2019), the 843rd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,319th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Physician.
George Minot was a doctor who discovered that the diet of patients suffering from pernicious anemia was deficient in vitamin B12. He and his colleague, William Murphy, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1934 for this discovery.
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Among physicians, George Minot ranks 108 out of 502. Before him are Frederick Chapman Robbins, Ragnar Granit, Charles Nicolle, Arvid Carlsson, Eric Kandel, and Gerhard Armauer Hansen. After him are Peter Damian, Johann Joachim Becher, Edgar Adrian, John Snow, Ferid Murad, and Francis Peyton Rous.
1916 - 2003
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 102
1900 - 1991
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 103
1866 - 1936
HPI: 63.71
Rank: 104
1923 - 2018
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 105
1929 - Present
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 106
1841 - 1912
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 107
1885 - 1950
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 108
1007 - 1072
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 109
1635 - 1682
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 110
1889 - 1977
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 111
1813 - 1858
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 112
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 113
1879 - 1970
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 114
Among people born in 1885, George Minot ranks 33. Before him are Karl Radek, Sabina Spielrein, Erich von Stroheim, Luigi Russolo, Tomoyuki Yamashita, and Hermann Weyl. After him are Alexander Löhr, Sinclair Lewis, Heinrich Hoffmann, Hugo Boss, Hugo Sperrle, and Clementine Churchill. Among people deceased in 1950, George Minot ranks 24. Before him are Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Nicolai Hartmann, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo, Norman Haworth, and Emil Jannings. After him are Cesare Pavese, Max Beckmann, John Rabe, Kuniaki Koiso, Roman Shukhevych, and Karl Seitz.
1885 - 1939
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 27
1885 - 1942
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 28
1885 - 1957
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 29
1885 - 1947
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 30
1885 - 1946
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 31
1885 - 1955
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 32
1885 - 1950
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 33
1885 - 1947
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 34
1885 - 1951
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 35
1885 - 1957
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 36
1885 - 1948
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 37
1885 - 1953
HPI: 62.71
Rank: 38
1885 - 1977
HPI: 62.27
Rank: 39
1863 - 1950
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 18
1882 - 1950
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 19
1879 - 1950
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 20
1872 - 1950
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 21
1883 - 1950
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 22
1884 - 1950
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 23
1885 - 1950
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 24
1908 - 1950
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 25
1884 - 1950
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 26
1882 - 1950
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 27
1880 - 1950
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 28
1907 - 1950
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 29
1869 - 1950
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 30
Among people born in United States, George Minot ranks 843 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert Hofstadter (1915), Ike Turner (1931), Joe DiMaggio (1914), Brian Dennehy (1938), John Franklin Enders (1897), and Larry Hagman (1931). After him are Mickey Rooney (1920), Lillian Gish (1893), Ritchie Valens (1941), Jayne Mansfield (1933), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), and Britney Spears (1981).
1915 - 1990
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 837
1931 - 2007
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 838
1914 - 1999
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 839
1938 - 2020
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 840
1897 - 1985
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 841
1931 - 2012
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 842
1885 - 1950
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 843
1920 - 2014
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 844
1893 - 1993
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 845
1941 - 1959
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 846
1933 - 1967
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 847
1915 - 2011
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 848
1981 - Present
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 849
Among physicians born in United States, George Minot ranks 7. Before him are Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), William P. Murphy (1892), William T. G. Morton (1819), Jonas Salk (1914), Stanley Cohen (1922), and Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916). After him are Ferid Murad (1936), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Virginia Apgar (1909), Joseph Murray (1919), and Robin Cook (1940).
1888 - 1963
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 1
1892 - 1987
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 2
1819 - 1868
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 3
1914 - 1995
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 4
1922 - 2020
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 5
1916 - 2003
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 6
1885 - 1950
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 7
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 8
1879 - 1970
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 9
1935 - Present
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 10
1909 - 1974
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 11
1919 - 2012
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 12
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 13