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Harvey Cushing

1869 - 1939

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Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harvey Cushing has received more than 644,095 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Harvey Cushing is the 417th most popular physician (down from 291st in 2019), the 4,028th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,675th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Harvey Cushing ranks 417 out of 726. Before him are Kusumoto Ine, Adrien Proust, Scipione Riva-Rocci, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Luigi Carlo Farini, and Shinobu Ishihara. After him are Luca Ghini, José Gregorio Hernández, Helen B. Taussig, Wilhelm Stekel, David Cooper, and William Kaelin Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Harvey Cushing ranks 91. Before him are Kiến Phúc, Ludwig von Reuter, Aleš Hrdlička, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Ben Turpin, and Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria. After him are Albert Kahn, Edwin Lutyens, Hendrikus Colijn, Boris Rosing, Augusto Tasso Fragoso, and Robbie Ross. Among people deceased in 1939, Harvey Cushing ranks 88. Before him are Fyodor Raskolnikov, Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro, Ottó Bláthy, Enrique Fernández Arbós, Vlas Chubar, and Levon Mirzoyan. After him are Stanisław Leśniewski, Gustavs Zemgals, Subhi Bey Barakat, Ford Madox Ford, Pavel Postyshev, and Alice Brady.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harvey Cushing ranks 4,028 out of 20,380. Before him are Edwin H. Land (1909), Marky Ramone (1952), Marla Maples (1963), Charles Geschke (1939), T-Bone Walker (1910), and Jennifer Tilly (1958). After him are Denis O'Hare (1962), Ambrose Burnside (1824), Luther Burbank (1849), Charles W. Gilmore (1874), Patrick Henry (1736), and Robert David Hall (1947).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Harvey Cushing ranks 46. Before him are Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), Philip Showalter Hench (1896), and William Stewart Halsted (1852). After him are Helen B. Taussig (1898), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), Crawford Long (1815), Charles Best (1899), Fernando J. Corbató (1926), and George Huntington (1850).

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