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Helen B. Taussig

1898 - 1986

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Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot (the most common cause of blue baby syndrome). This concept was applied in practice as a procedure known as the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helen B. Taussig has received more than 303,732 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Helen B. Taussig is the 420th most popular physician (down from 302nd in 2019), the 4,054th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,842nd in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Helen B. Taussig ranks 420 out of 726. Before her are Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Luigi Carlo Farini, Shinobu Ishihara, Harvey Cushing, Luca Ghini, and José Gregorio Hernández. After her are Wilhelm Stekel, David Cooper, William Kaelin Jr., Giorgio Biandrata, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, and Kiyoshi Shiga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Helen B. Taussig ranks 132. Before her are Ben Shahn, Ira Sprague Bowen, Ada Blackjack, Walther von Hünersdorff, Leopold Okulicki, and Pavel Urysohn. After her are Erich Bey, Dámaso Alonso, Anthony McAuliffe, Luís Carlos Prestes, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, and Mikhail Koshkin. Among people deceased in 1986, Helen B. Taussig ranks 117. Before her are Dick Scobee, Fumiko Enchi, James H. Wilkinson, Oscar Zariski, Josef Kammhuber, and Anatoly Marchenko. After her are Hoàng Văn Thái, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, David Cooper, Robert Stevenson, Géza von Radványi, and Vasily Ignatenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen B. Taussig ranks 4,054 out of 20,380. Before her are Natacha Rambova (1897), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), Jennifer Doudna (1964), Pharoah Sanders (1940), Robert Mulligan (1925), and Gene Amdahl (1922). After her are Kate Walsh (1967), Robert Smith (1757), James Mangold (1963), James Hillman (1926), Anne Tyler (1941), and Jane Badler (1953).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Helen B. Taussig ranks 47. Before her are Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), Philip Showalter Hench (1896), William Stewart Halsted (1852), and Harvey Cushing (1869). After her are William Kaelin Jr. (1957), Crawford Long (1815), Charles Best (1899), Fernando J. Corbató (1926), George Huntington (1850), and Benjamin Rush (1745).

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