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Georgios Papanikolaou

1883 - 1962

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Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou (or George Papanicolaou ; Greek: Γεώργιος Ν. Παπανικολάου [papanikoˈlau]; 13 May 1883 – 19 February 1962) was a Greek physician, zoologist and microscopist who was a pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the "Pap smear". After studying medicine in Greece and Germany, he emigrated in 1913 to the United States and was faculty at Cornell Medical College. He first reported that uterine cancer cells could be detected in vaginal smears in 1928, but his work was not widely recognized until the 1940s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georgios Papanikolaou has received more than 851,819 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Georgios Papanikolaou is the 143rd most popular physician (down from 118th in 2019), the 224th most popular biography from Greece (down from 207th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Greek Physician.

Georgios Papanikolaou is most famous for his invention of the Pap smear, a screening test for cervical cancer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Georgios Papanikolaou ranks 143 out of 502. Before him are Robin Cook, Haldan Keffer Hartline, Agnodice, Mungo Park, Ulf von Euler, and Theodor Billroth. After him are Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Heo Jun, Louis Ignarro, Baruj Benacerraf, André Frédéric Cournand, and Baruch Samuel Blumberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Georgios Papanikolaou ranks 43. Before him are Angela Hitler, Nina Ricci, Giovanni Messe, Gottfried Feder, Zaifeng, Prince Chun, and Douglas Fairbanks. After him are Döme Sztójay, Max Linder, Gino Severini, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Joseph Pilates, and Rudolf Weigl. Among people deceased in 1962, Georgios Papanikolaou ranks 31. Before him are Therese Neumann, Bruno Walter, Joseph Berchtold, Ronald Fisher, Alfred Cortot, and Hans Lammers. After him are Charles Laughton, Jacques Ibert, Hanns Eisler, Gabriele Münter, Killing of Peter Fechter, and Archduke Joseph August of Austria.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Georgios Papanikolaou ranks 224 out of 936. Before him are Alexander I of Epirus (-362), Thessalonike of Macedon (-352), Cleobulus (-590), Antiphon (-480), Aristarchus of Samothrace (-217), and Herodes Atticus (101). After him are Memnon of Rhodes (-380), Hipparchus (-600), Alexandra of Yugoslavia (1921), Phocion (-402), Berenice I of Egypt (-340), and Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (1905).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Greece

Among physicians born in Greece, Georgios Papanikolaou ranks 2. Before him are Hippocrates (-460). After him are Erasistratus (-303), Paul of Aegina (625), and Podalirius (null).

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