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Hans Sloane

1660 - 1753

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Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, and collector, with a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Museum, the British Library, and the Natural History Museum, London. He was elected to the Royal Society at the age of 24. Sloane travelled to the Caribbean in 1687 and documented his travels and findings with extensive publications years later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Sloane has received more than 651,448 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Hans Sloane is the 195th most popular physician (up from 229th in 2019), the 1,008th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,225th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Hans Sloane ranks 195 out of 502. Before him are Asclepiades of Bithynia, Joseph Calasanz, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Howard Florey, Severo Ochoa, and George Whipple. After him are Marcel Petiot, Bernardino Ramazzini, Trota of Salerno, Bernard Kouchner, Franciscus Sylvius, and David H. Hubel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1660, Hans Sloane ranks 8. Before him are George I of Great Britain, Alessandro Scarlatti, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria, André Campra, and Johann Joseph Fux. After him are Veronica Giuliani, Johann Kuhnau, Andreas Schlüter, Johann Patkul, Rafael Casanova, and Friedrich Hoffmann. Among people deceased in 1753, Hans Sloane ranks 3. Before him are George Berkeley and Balthasar Neumann. After him are Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Gottfried Silbermann, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Johann Nicolaus Bach, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hans Sloane ranks 1,008 out of 7,765. Before him are Honor Blackman (1925), Warren Hastings (1732), Anna Atkins (1799), Thomas Cavendish (1560), Ida Noddack (1896), and Freeman Dyson (1923). After him are Robert Hardy (1925), Cozy Powell (1947), Mary Somerville (1780), Paddy Roy Bates (1921), Van Morrison (1945), and Princess Marie of Orléans (1865).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Hans Sloane ranks 14. Before him are Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), Frederick Griffith (1879), Mungo Park (1771), John Langdon Down (1828), Alan Hodgkin (1914), and Thomas Willis (1621). After him are James Black (1924), James Lind (1716), Edward Bach (1886), Thomas Hodgkin (1798), Thomas Addison (1793), and Robert Darwin (1766).

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