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Haldan Keffer Hartline

1903 - 1983

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Haldan Keffer Hartline (December 22, 1903 – March 17, 1983) was an American physiologist who was a co-recipient (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Haldan Keffer Hartline has received more than 83,883 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Haldan Keffer Hartline is the 138th most popular physician (up from 179th in 2019), the 1,107th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,490th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Haldan Keffer Hartline ranks 138 out of 502Before him are Frederick Griffith, Charles Brenton Huggins, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Jens Christian Skou, Marie François Xavier Bichat, and Robin Cook. After him are Agnodice, Mungo Park, Ulf von Euler, Theodor Billroth, Georgios Papanikolaou, and Jean Marc Gaspard Itard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Haldan Keffer Hartline ranks 53Before him are Claudio Arrau, Tamam Shud case, John Eccles, Bruno Bettelheim, John Vincent Atanasoff, and Claudette Colbert. After him are George Davis Snell, Irving Stone, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Vincente Minnelli, Waldemar Hoven, and Erskine Caldwell. Among people deceased in 1983, Haldan Keffer Hartline ranks 28Before him are Alfred Tarski, John Fante, Anna Seghers, George Balanchine, Aleksandar Ranković, and Muddy Waters. After him are Ulf von Euler, Robert Aldrich, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Klaus Nomi, and Maurice Ronet.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Haldan Keffer Hartline ranks 1,107 out of 18,182Before him are Hattie McDaniel (1893), Tom Berenger (1949), Brooke Shields (1965), Marshall Rosenberg (1934), Mary Ainsworth (1913), and Harry Dean Stanton (1926). After him are Richard Barthelmess (1895), David Scott (1932), William Tecumseh Sherman (1820), Bob Kane (1915), Kyle MacLachlan (1959), and Jonathan Banks (1947).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Haldan Keffer Hartline ranks 14Before him are Ferid Murad (1936), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Virginia Apgar (1909), Joseph Murray (1919), and Robin Cook (1940). After him are Louis Ignarro (1941), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), George H. Hitchings (1905), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), Joseph Erlanger (1874), and Michael Stuart Brown (1941).