1878 - 1976
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 150,592 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). George Whipple is the 194th most popular physician (up from 204th in 2019), the 1,558th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,677th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Physician.
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Among physicians, George Whipple ranks 194 out of 502. Before him are Sebastian Kneipp, Asclepiades of Bithynia, Joseph Calasanz, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Howard Florey, and Severo Ochoa. After him are Hans Sloane, Marcel Petiot, Bernardino Ramazzini, Trota of Salerno, Bernard Kouchner, and Franciscus Sylvius.
1821 - 1897
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 188
120 BC - 40 BC
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 189
1556 - 1648
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 190
1899 - 1945
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 191
1898 - 1968
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 192
1905 - 1993
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 193
1878 - 1976
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 194
1660 - 1753
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 195
1897 - 1946
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 196
1633 - 1714
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 197
1001 - 1200
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 198
1939 - Present
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 199
1614 - 1672
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 200
Among people born in 1878, George Whipple ranks 34. Before him are Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Arthur Scherbius, P. D. Ouspensky, Léon Werth, Marcel Grossmann, and Jan Łukasiewicz. After him are Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Georg Kaiser, Clemens August Graf von Galen, Mahmud Barzanji, Slavko Kvaternik, and Yosano Akiko. Among people deceased in 1976, George Whipple ranks 52. Before him are Yonatan Netanyahu, Lin Yutang, George Ostrogorsky, João Goulart, Tove Ditlevsen, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. After him are Ivan Yakubovsky, Carlo Gambino, Michael Polanyi, Abdul Razak Hussein, Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, and Arnold Gehlen.
1878 - 1960
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 28
1878 - 1929
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 29
1878 - 1947
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 30
1878 - 1955
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 31
1878 - 1936
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 32
1878 - 1956
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 33
1878 - 1976
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 34
1878 - 1947
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 35
1878 - 1945
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 36
1878 - 1946
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 37
1878 - 1956
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 38
1878 - 1947
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 39
1878 - 1942
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 40
1946 - 1976
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 46
1895 - 1976
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 47
1902 - 1976
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 48
1918 - 1976
HPI: 59.85
Rank: 49
1917 - 1976
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 50
1884 - 1976
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 51
1878 - 1976
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 52
1912 - 1976
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 53
1902 - 1976
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 54
1891 - 1976
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 55
1922 - 1976
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 56
1888 - 1976
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 57
1904 - 1976
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 58
Among people born in United States, George Whipple ranks 1,558 out of 18,182. Before him are Leslie Groves (1896), Kim Carnes (1945), Lisa Ann (1972), Tony Shalhoub (1953), Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807). After him are William Daniel Phillips (1948), Valerie Solanas (1936), Anthony Bourdain (1956), Eddie Cochran (1938), John Saxon (1935), and James Earl Ray (1928).
1896 - 1970
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 1,552
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 1,553
1972 - Present
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 1,554
1953 - Present
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 1,555
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 1,556
1807 - 1882
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 1,557
1878 - 1976
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 1,558
1948 - Present
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 1,559
1936 - 1988
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 1,560
1956 - 2018
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 1,561
1938 - 1960
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 1,562
1935 - 2020
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 1,563
1928 - 1998
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 1,564
Among physicians born in United States, George Whipple ranks 23. Before him are George H. Hitchings (1905), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), Joseph Erlanger (1874), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Anthony Fauci (1940), and Patch Adams (1945). After him are Henry Heimlich (1920), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), Jack Kevorkian (1928), John O'Keefe (1939), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), and Peter Agre (1949).
1905 - 1998
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 17
1920 - 2012
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 18
1874 - 1965
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 19
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 20
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 21
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 22
1878 - 1976
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 23
1920 - 2016
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 24
1895 - 1973
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 25
1928 - 2011
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 26
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 27
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 28
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 29