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Hilary Koprowski

1916 - 2013

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Hilary Koprowski (5 December 1916 – 11 April 2013) was a Polish virologist and immunologist active in the United States who demonstrated the world's first effective live polio vaccine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hilary Koprowski has received more than 573,696 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Hilary Koprowski is the 356th most popular physician (down from 283rd in 2019), the 580th most popular biography from Poland (down from 444th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Hilary Koprowski ranks 356 out of 726. Before him are Anders Chydenius, Ernest Duchesne, Ewald Hering, Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, Mehmet Oz, and Stamen Grigorov. After him are Justinus Kerner, Jean Pierre Flourens, Robert Darwin, Carlos Chagas, Moritz Kaposi, and Pierre Fauchard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Hilary Koprowski ranks 114. Before him are Edmundo Suárez, Ugo Locatelli, Helmut Gröttrup, Erik Nilsson, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Amha Selassie. After him are Moondog, Giuseppe Taddei, Julian Rotter, Wilhelm Batz, Jacques Georges, and Harold Robbins. Among people deceased in 2013, Hilary Koprowski ranks 160. Before him are Anatoly Onoprienko, Pyotr Bolotnikov, Eiji Toyoda, Clive Burr, Elmore Leonard, and Ronnie Biggs. After him are Colin Davis, Georges Descrières, Jean Vincent, Eero Mäntyranta, Patti Page, and Tom Sharpe.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hilary Koprowski ranks 580 out of 1,694. Before him are Peter van Eyck (1911), Krzysztof Komeda (1931), Isaac Deutscher (1907), Caspar Schwenckfeld (1490), Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1885), and Bella Darvi (1928). After him are Edward Ochab (1906), Jan Sarkander (1576), Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), Eugen Goldstein (1860), and Joachim Meisner (1933).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Hilary Koprowski ranks 13. Before him are Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Leon Pinsker (1821), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Jan Jesenius (1566), and Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855). After him are Robert Remak (1815), Wilhelm Fliess (1858), Ludwik Rajchman (1881), Kazimierz Bein (1872), Max Gerson (1881), and Zofia Zamenhof (1889).

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