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Georges Gilles de la Tourette

1857 - 1904

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Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (French: [ʒɔʁʒ albɛʁ edwaʁ bʁytys ʒil də la tuʁɛt]; 30 October 1857 – 22 May 1904) was a French neurologist and the namesake of Tourette syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by tics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Gilles de la Tourette has received more than 287,811 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Georges Gilles de la Tourette is the 169th most popular physician (up from 181st in 2019), the 1,281st most popular biography from France (up from 1,344th in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Physician.

Georges Gilles de la Tourette was a French neurologist who first described Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder characterized by the presence of physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Georges Gilles de la Tourette ranks 169 out of 726. Before him are Agnodice, Robin Cook, Georgios Papanikolaou, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Andrea Cesalpino, and Engelbert Kaempfer. After him are Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Charaka, Frederick Griffith, Kitasato Shibasaburō, Mehriban Aliyeva, and Michael Stuart Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Georges Gilles de la Tourette ranks 36. Before him are George Hendrik Breitner, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Otto von Below, Edward Emerson Barnard, Aleksandr Lyapunov, and Max Klinger. After him are 12th Dalai Lama, Antoni Grabowski, Ida Tarbell, Cécile Chaminade, Wilhelm Johannsen, and Eugène Atget. Among people deceased in 1904, Georges Gilles de la Tourette ranks 24. Before him are Paul Kruger, Lafcadio Hearn, Étienne-Jules Marey, Mathilde Bonaparte, Émile Gallé, and Norodom of Cambodia. After him are Sami Frashëri, Alfred von Waldersee, Eduard Hanslick, María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Nikolay Bobrikov, and Vladimir Markovnikov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Gilles de la Tourette ranks 1,281 out of 6,770. Before him are Édouard Lucas (1842), Alain-Fournier (1886), Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (1401), Rudolph III of Burgundy (971), Philippe Starck (1949), and Nathalie Baye (1948). After him are Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse (1678), Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (1311), Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895), Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827), Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (1753), and Max Linder (1883).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Georges Gilles de la Tourette ranks 18. Before him are Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Charles Nicolle (1866), Jean Nicot (1530), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), and Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774). After him are Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), Maurice Bucaille (1920), Guy de Chauliac (1300), Paul Gachet (1828), Albert Calmette (1863), and Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757).

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