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Horace Wells

1815 - 1848

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Horace Wells (January 21, 1815 – January 24, 1848) was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in medicine, specifically the use of nitrous oxide (or laughing gas). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horace Wells has received more than 272,564 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Horace Wells is the 300th most popular physician (up from 317th in 2019), the 2,694th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,965th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Horace Wells ranks 300 out of 726. Before him are Gerard van Swieten, Sigmund Rascher, Leopold Auenbrugger, Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, Kálmán Kalocsay, and Michel-Gabriel Paccard. After him are Jan Jesenius, Aëtius of Amida, Hakaru Hashimoto, Titus Brandsma, William Osler, and Thomas Sydenham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Horace Wells ranks 28. Before him are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Anthony Trollope, Eugène Marin Labiche, Andrew Graham, and Wilhelm Peters. After him are George Meade, Ii Naosuke, Alexander von Middendorff, James Curtis Hepburn, Jean-Delphin Alard, and Charles Renouvier. Among people deceased in 1848, Horace Wells ranks 26. Before him are James Dunlop, Branwell Brontë, Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, and John Jacob Astor. After him are Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, Keisai Eisen, Christen Købke, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, Pellegrino Rossi, and Robert Darwin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Horace Wells ranks 2,694 out of 20,380. Before him are Larry David (1947), Waylon Jennings (1937), James Mark Baldwin (1861), Anna May Wong (1905), Lizzie Borden (1860), and Linda Kozlowski (1958). After him are Siri Hustvedt (1955), Kevin Federline (1978), Richard Holbrooke (1941), Peter Boyle (1935), William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), and Jason Newsted (1963).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Horace Wells ranks 34. Before him are John O'Keefe (1939), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Richard Axel (1946), Michael DeBakey (1908), and Drew Weissman (1959). After him are James Curtis Hepburn (1815), Jack Kevorkian (1928), William Bates (1860), Anthony Fauci (1940), Mehmet Oz (1960), and Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895).

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