1911 - 1978
Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 – 24 January 1978) was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Doctors' trial, but served only five years of her sentence. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herta Oberheuser has received more than 511,042 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Herta Oberheuser is the 150th most popular physician (up from 271st in 2019), the 1,037th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,773rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Physician.
Herta Oberheuser was a Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments on prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp. She is most famous for being the only female defendant at the Nuremberg Trials, and for her involvement in the selection of subjects for medical experiments.
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Among physicians, Herta Oberheuser ranks 150 out of 509. Before her are André Frédéric Cournand, Edgar Adrian, Albert of Riga, Virginia Apgar, Ctesias, and Louis Ignarro. After her are Frederick Chapman Robbins, Ernst Gräfenberg, Magnus Hirschfeld, August von Wassermann, George Emil Palade, and Niels Kaj Jerne.
1895 - 1988
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 144
1889 - 1977
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 145
1165 - 1229
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 146
1909 - 1974
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 147
440 BC - 400 BC
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 148
1941 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 149
1911 - 1978
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 150
1916 - 2003
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 151
1881 - 1957
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 152
1868 - 1935
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 153
1866 - 1925
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 154
1912 - 2008
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 155
1911 - 1994
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 156
Among people born in 1911, Herta Oberheuser ranks 57. Before her are Bruno Kreisky, Robert Taylor, Stanisława Walasiewicz, Klaus Fuchs, Sergey Sokolov, and Karl Silberbauer. After her are Niels Kaj Jerne, Alfred Naujocks, Feodor Lynen, Nicholas Ray, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, and Lee Yoo-hyung. Among people deceased in 1978, Herta Oberheuser ranks 38. Before her are Nazli Sabri, Keith Moon, Harvey Milk, Claude François, Roger Caillois, and Étienne Gilson. After her are Charles Boyer, Tamara Karsavina, Charles Eames, Georgi Markov, Musa al-Sadr, and Ignazio Silone.
1911 - 1990
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 51
1911 - 1969
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 52
1911 - 1980
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 53
1911 - 1988
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 54
1911 - 2012
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 55
1911 - 1972
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 56
1911 - 1978
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 57
1911 - 1994
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 58
1911 - 1966
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 59
1911 - 1979
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 60
1911 - 1979
HPI: 69.07
Rank: 61
1911 - 1986
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 62
1911 - 2003
HPI: 68.69
Rank: 63
1894 - 1978
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 32
1946 - 1978
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 33
1930 - 1978
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 34
1939 - 1978
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 35
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 36
1884 - 1978
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 37
1911 - 1978
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 38
1899 - 1978
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 39
1885 - 1978
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 40
1907 - 1978
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 41
1929 - 1978
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 42
1928 - 1978
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 43
1900 - 1978
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 44
Among people born in Germany, Herta Oberheuser ranks 1,037 out of 5,289. Before her are Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (1670), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), Hanns Eisler (1898), Gottfried Benn (1886), and William V, Duke of Bavaria (1548). After her are Carl Reinecke (1824), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), Klaus Nomi (1944), August von Wassermann (1866), and Carsten Niebuhr (1733).
1670 - 1748
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 1,031
1844 - 1918
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 1,032
1748 - 1798
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 1,033
1898 - 1962
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 1,034
1886 - 1956
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 1,035
1548 - 1626
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 1,036
1911 - 1978
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 1,037
1824 - 1910
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 1,038
1591 - 1666
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 1,039
1881 - 1957
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 1,040
1944 - 1983
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 1,041
1866 - 1925
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 1,042
1733 - 1815
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 1,043
Among physicians born in Germany, Herta Oberheuser ranks 19. Before her are Werner Forssmann (1904), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Otto Loewi (1873), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), Theodor Billroth (1829), and Albert of Riga (1165). After her are Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), August von Wassermann (1866), Waldemar Hoven (1903), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), Franciscus Sylvius (1614), and Werner Haase (1900).
1904 - 1979
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 13
1801 - 1858
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 14
1873 - 1961
HPI: 71.16
Rank: 15
1635 - 1682
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 16
1829 - 1894
HPI: 69.84
Rank: 17
1165 - 1229
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 18
1911 - 1978
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 19
1881 - 1957
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 20
1866 - 1925
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 21
1903 - 1948
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 22
1821 - 1897
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 23
1614 - 1672
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 24
1900 - 1950
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 25