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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 142,715 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). James Paget is the 455th most popular physician (down from 409th in 2019), the 2,682nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,533rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Physician.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.95

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  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, James Paget ranks 455 out of 502. Before him are John Crawfurd, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Kazimierz Bein, Hulusi Behçet, Erik Adolf von Willebrand, and Willem Johan Kolff. After him are Ennio Antonelli, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, Henri Dutrochet, and Pierre Marie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, James Paget ranks 48. Before him are Amalia Lindegren, Prince Karl of Auersperg, Joseph Hooker, Miklós Ybl, Jules Simon, and Daniel Kirkwood. After him are Edmond Frémy, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Girolamo de Rada, Johann Georg Halske, Hervé Faye, and Gustav Hartlaub. Among people deceased in 1899, James Paget ranks 48. Before him are Gaston Tissandier, José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Heymann Steinthal, Ulises Heureaux, and Mór Than. After him are Juliusz Kossak, Jovan Ristić, Juan Luna, Ernest Renshaw, Max Lange, and Antonio Luna.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Paget ranks 2,682 out of 7,765. Before him are Billy Boyd (1968), Ray Davies (1944), Storm Thorgerson (1944), Hilary Mantel (1952), Gerald of Wales (1146), and Daniel Jones (1881). After him are Colin Bell (1946), Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), Joely Richardson (1965), Andrew V. McLaglen (1920), George Dawe (1781), and Georgette Heyer (1902).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, James Paget ranks 39. Before him are Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), William Turner (1510), Rutherford Alcock (1809), Harry Seeley (1839), James Young Simpson (1811), and John Crawfurd (1783). After him are William Hunter (1718), Richard Bright (1789), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), Robert Knox (1791), Thomas Francis Wade (1818), and Ernest Starling (1866).

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