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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 260,109 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Horace Wells is the 317th most popular physician (down from 301st in 2019), the 2,972nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,793rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Physician.

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  • 54.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Horace Wells ranks 317 out of 502Before him are Johann Conrad Dippel, Mondino de Luzzi, Thomas Szasz, Ernest Duchesne, William Bates, and Nicolae Paulescu. After him are Titus Brandsma, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Max Heindel, Irmfried Eberl, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, and Pierre Fauchard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Horace Wells ranks 30Before him are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eugène Marin Labiche, Alexander von Middendorff, John A. Macdonald, Wilhelm Peters, and Ii Naosuke. After him are Ang Mey, James Curtis Hepburn, Louis Le Chatelier, Robert Remak, Temistocle Solera, and George Meade. Among people deceased in 1848, Horace Wells ranks 27Before him are Robert Darwin, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Frederick Marryat, John Jacob Astor, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, and Christen Købke. After him are Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, Keisai Eisen, James Dunlop, Pierre Wantzel, Pellegrino Rossi, and Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Horace Wells ranks 2,972 out of 18,182Before him are George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), Ty Cobb (1886), Jim Hines (1946), Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Babushka Lady (1930), and Henry George (1839). After him are James Henry Breasted (1865), Duke Kahanamoku (1890), Johnny Carson (1925), Eddie Fisher (1928), Joe Rosenthal (1911), and Christina Applegate (1971).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Horace Wells ranks 39Before him are Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Helen B. Taussig (1898), Charles Best (1899), Randy Schekman (1948), George Huntington (1850), and William Bates (1860). After him are Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), Richard Axel (1946), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), and Crawford Long (1815).