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 75,461 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). George Minot is the 159th most popular physician (down from 123rd in 2019), the 1,320th most popular biography from United States (down from 921st in 2019) and the 15th 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 159 out of 509. Before him are Magnus Hirschfeld, August von Wassermann, George Emil Palade, Niels Kaj Jerne, Francis Peyton Rous, and Francysk Skaryna. After him are Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Maurice Bucaille, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Alan Hodgkin, Waldemar Hoven, and Howard Florey.
1868 - 1935
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 153
1866 - 1925
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 154
1912 - 2008
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 155
1911 - 1994
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 156
1879 - 1970
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 157
1486 - 1541
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 158
1885 - 1950
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 159
100 - 200
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 160
1920 - 1998
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 161
1501 - 1578
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 162
1914 - 1998
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 163
1903 - 1948
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 164
1898 - 1968
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 165
Among people born in 1885, George Minot ranks 50. Before him are Gunnar Asplund, Franz Böhme, John Edensor Littlewood, Otto Klemperer, Giacomo Matteotti, and Tamara Karsavina. After him are Velimir Khlebnikov, Clementine Churchill, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Kato Svanidze, Egon Kisch, and Per Albin Hansson. Among people deceased in 1950, George Minot ranks 33. Before him are Kuniaki Koiso, Dinu Lipatti, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Karl Seitz, Jan Smuts, and John Rabe. After him are Petre Dumitrescu, Constantin Carathéodory, Eliel Saarinen, Emmanuel Mounier, Roman Shukhevych, and Mao Anying.
1885 - 1940
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 44
1885 - 1947
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 45
1885 - 1977
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 46
1885 - 1973
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 47
1885 - 1924
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 48
1885 - 1978
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 49
1885 - 1950
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 50
1885 - 1922
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 51
1885 - 1977
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 52
1885 - 1954
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 53
1885 - 1907
HPI: 68.45
Rank: 54
1885 - 1948
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 55
1885 - 1946
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 56
1880 - 1950
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 27
1917 - 1950
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 28
1881 - 1950
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 29
1869 - 1950
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 30
1870 - 1950
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 31
1882 - 1950
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 32
1885 - 1950
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 33
1882 - 1950
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 34
1873 - 1950
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 35
1873 - 1950
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 36
1905 - 1950
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 37
1907 - 1950
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 38
1922 - 1950
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 39
Among people born in United States, George Minot ranks 1,320 out of 15,968. Before him are Karen Grassle (1942), John Brown (1800), Count Basie (1904), George Benson (1943), Jack Dempsey (1895), and Aaron Spelling (1923). After him are Stephanie Kwolek (1923), Tom Berenger (1949), William Boeing (1881), Duff McKagan (1964), Edmund Kemper (1948), and Martin Balsam (1919).
1942 - Present
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 1,314
1800 - 1859
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 1,315
1904 - 1984
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 1,316
1943 - Present
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 1,317
1895 - 1983
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 1,318
1923 - 2006
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 1,319
1885 - 1950
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 1,320
1923 - 2014
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 1,321
1949 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 1,322
1881 - 1956
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 1,323
1964 - Present
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 1,324
1948 - Present
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 1,325
1919 - 1996
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 1,326
Among physicians born in United States, George Minot ranks 15. Before him are Joseph Erlanger (1874), Joseph Murray (1919), Virginia Apgar (1909), Louis Ignarro (1941), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), and Francis Peyton Rous (1879). After him are Michael Stuart Brown (1941), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), Henry Heimlich (1920), Patch Adams (1945), and Anthony Fauci (1940).
1874 - 1965
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 9
1919 - 2012
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 10
1909 - 1974
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 11
1941 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 12
1916 - 2003
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 13
1879 - 1970
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 14
1885 - 1950
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 15
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 16
1920 - 2012
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 17
1903 - 1983
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 18
1920 - 2016
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 19
1945 - Present
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 20
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 21