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George Whipple

1878 - 1976

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George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976) was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Whipple has received more than 163,459 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. George Whipple is the 161st most popular physician (up from 194th in 2019), the 1,262nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,558th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, George Whipple ranks 161 out of 726. Before him are Trota of Salerno, James Black, Carl Ludwig, Severo Ochoa, Charles Brenton Huggins, and John Langdon Down. After him are Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Agnodice, Robin Cook, Georgios Papanikolaou, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, and Andrea Cesalpino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, George Whipple ranks 26. Before him are Iwane Matsui, Gemma Galgani, Louis Chevrolet, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, Stepan Shaumian, and Georg Kaiser. After him are Marcel Grossmann, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Arthur Scherbius, Yosano Akiko, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, and Eileen Gray. Among people deceased in 1976, George Whipple ranks 47. Before him are Josef Albers, Paul Lazarsfeld, David Elazar, Yonatan Netanyahu, João Goulart, and Kazi Nazrul Islam. After him are George Ostrogorsky, Eileen Gray, Phil Ochs, Carlo Gambino, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Carol Reed.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Whipple ranks 1,262 out of 20,380. Before him are Mike Shinoda (1977), Tecumseh (1768), Jaco Pastorius (1951), Otis Redding (1941), Phil Hill (1927), and Courtney Love (1964). After him are Mamie Eisenhower (1896), Scott Glenn (1939), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), Kirstie Alley (1951), and Dennis Rader (1945).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, George Whipple ranks 17. Before him are Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), Joseph Erlanger (1874), Harvey J. Alter (1935), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), and George H. Hitchings (1905). After him are Robin Cook (1940), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Joseph Murray (1919), Louis Ignarro (1941), Peter Agre (1949), and Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925).

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