PHYSICIAN

James Black

1924 - 2010

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Sir James Whyte Black (14 June 1924 – 22 March 2010) was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational drug-design, which, in his case, led to the development of propranolol and cimetidine. Black established a Veterinary Physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became interested in the effects of adrenaline on the human heart. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Black has received more than 46,277 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). James Black is the 156th most popular physician (up from 221st in 2019), the 783rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,147th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, James Black ranks 156 out of 726. Before him are Albert of Riga, George H. Hitchings, Merit-Ptah, Francysk Skaryna, Joseph Calasanz, and Trota of Salerno. After him are Carl Ludwig, Severo Ochoa, Charles Brenton Huggins, John Langdon Down, George Whipple, and Rolf M. Zinkernagel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, James Black ranks 53. Before him are Roberto Eduardo Viola, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Rauf Denktaş, Charlie Munger, Israel Tal, and Francisco Macías Nguema. After him are Michel Tournier, Giovanni Sartori, Ante Marković, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Dorothy Malone, and Guy Williams. Among people deceased in 2010, James Black ranks 40. Before him are Alice Miller, Vladimir Arnold, Henryk Górecki, Maria Kaczyńska, Israel Tal, and Jean Simmons. After him are Bekim Fehmiu, Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Enzo Bearzot, Blake Edwards, John Fenn, and Francisco Varallo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Black ranks 783 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Wilson (1936), Ken Hensley (1945), Julie Walters (1950), Thomas De Quincey (1785), John Gielgud (1904), and Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868). After him are James Joseph Sylvester (1814), P. D. James (1920), Naomi Watts (1968), Stuart Sutcliffe (1940), Malcolm III of Scotland (1031), and Robert FitzRoy (1805).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, James Black ranks 9. Before him are Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Joseph Lister (1827), James Parkinson (1755), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), John Snow (1813), and Edgar Adrian (1889). After him are John Langdon Down (1828), Frederick Griffith (1879), Alan Hodgkin (1914), Hans Sloane (1660), Thomas Willis (1621), and Mungo Park (1771).

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