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James Paget

1814 - 1899

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Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet FRS HFRSE (11 January 1814 – 30 December 1899) (, rhymes with "gadget") was an English surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for naming Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. His famous works included Lectures on Tumours (1851) and Lectures on Surgical Pathology (1853). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Paget has received more than 152,876 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. James Paget is the 493rd most popular physician (down from 454th in 2019), the 2,788th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,675th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, James Paget ranks 493 out of 726. Before him are Kyusaku Ogino, William Turner, Willem Johan Kolff, Guy Patin, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, and Zofia Zamenhof. After him are Sergey Botkin, George Huntington, Tewhida Ben Sheikh, Abella, Ernest Starling, and Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, James Paget ranks 51. Before him are Prince Karl of Auersperg, Johann Georg Halske, Amalia Lindegren, Gustav Hartlaub, Daniel Kirkwood, and Joseph Hooker. After him are Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Hervé Faye, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Hermann, Prince of Wied, Adolph Tidemand, and Franz Josef Ruprecht. Among people deceased in 1899, James Paget ranks 52. Before him are Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Juliusz Kossak, Adile Sultan, Lars Fredrik Nilson, Ulises Heureaux, and Gaston Tissandier. After him are Wilhelm Jordan, Jovan Ristić, Max Lange, Emil Welti, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, and Lascăr Catargiu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Paget ranks 2,788 out of 8,785. Before him are John Taylor (1933), Mother Shipton (1488), Mary Ure (1933), Laura Ashley (1925), Arthur Waley (1889), and William Congreve (1670). After him are Chris Waddle (1960), Caroline Goodall (1959), John Hick (1922), Maurice Dobb (1900), Alfred Deller (1912), and Tyson Fury (1988).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, James Paget ranks 42. Before him are Robert Liston (1794), John Crawfurd (1783), James Young Simpson (1811), Richard Bright (1789), Rutherford Alcock (1809), and William Turner (1510). After him are Ernest Starling (1866), Robert Knox (1791), Anthony Carlisle (1768), Frederick Twort (1877), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), and Thomas Francis Wade (1818).

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