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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 281,274 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Helen B. Taussig is the 302nd most popular physician (up from 425th in 2019), the 2,849th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,021st in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Helen B. Taussig ranks 302 out of 502. Before her are Sun Simiao, Hakaru Hashimoto, Andrew Taylor Still, Leonid Kulik, Joseph Škoda, and Realdo Colombo. After her are Charles Best, Aletta Jacobs, Leopold Auenbrugger, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Randy Schekman, and George Huntington.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Helen B. Taussig ranks 102. Before her are Michel de Ghelderode, Lionel Robbins, Joseph Kessel, Alfred Schmidt, Shinichi Suzuki, and Kang Sheng. After her are Ferenc Plattkó, Étienne Decroux, Jacques Doriot, Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt, Gabriel González Videla, and Eric Hoffer. Among people deceased in 1986, Helen B. Taussig ranks 96. Before her are Mart Stam, Ding Ling, Michael J. Smith, Elsa Lanchester, Princess Anne of Orléans, and Vitaly Abalakov. After her are Valentin Kataev, Judith Resnik, Scatman Crothers, Princess Yolanda of Savoy, Phil Lynott, and Dick Scobee.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen B. Taussig ranks 2,849 out of 18,182. Before her are Lois Chiles (1947), Sam Waterston (1940), Artie Shaw (1910), Cheech Marin (1946), Jeffrey Tambor (1944), and Linda Kozlowski (1958). After her are Stuart Whitman (1928), Michael Bolton (1953), Tyne Daly (1946), Ben Hecht (1893), Timothée Chalamet (1995), and Kamehameha III (1814).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Helen B. Taussig ranks 34. Before her are Robert Lefkowitz (1943), Peter Agre (1949), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Harvey Cushing (1869), Michael DeBakey (1908), and Andrew Taylor Still (1828). After her are Charles Best (1899), Randy Schekman (1948), George Huntington (1850), William Bates (1860), Horace Wells (1815), and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923).

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