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James Parkinson

1755 - 1824

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James Parkinson (11 April 1755 – 21 December 1824) was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist and political activist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Parkinson has received more than 366,162 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). James Parkinson is the 107th most popular physician (down from 67th in 2019), the 562nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 413th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Physician.

James Parkinson was a British physician who published the first medical description of Parkinson's disease in 1817.

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  • 370k

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  • 63.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, James Parkinson ranks 107 out of 726. Before him are Ctesias, Werner Forssmann, William T. G. Morton, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Jens Christian Skou, and Frederick Chapman Robbins. After him are Ronald Ross, Eric Kandel, Ulf von Euler, Jonas Salk, Andrew Schally, and Arvid Carlsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, James Parkinson ranks 11. Before him are Axel von Fersen the Younger, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Hahnemann, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, and Georges Couthon. After him are Giovanni Battista Viotti, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Anthony of Saxony, Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden, François Joseph Lefebvre, and Natalia Alexeievna. Among people deceased in 1824, James Parkinson ranks 9. Before him are Eugène de Beauharnais, Théodore Géricault, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Agustín de Iturbide. After him are Giovanni Battista Viotti, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, Rama II of Siam, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Maine de Biran, and Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Parkinson ranks 562 out of 8,785. Before him are David J. Thouless (1934), Benjamin Graham (1894), Philip Miller (1691), Thomas Wolsey (1473), Bill Nighy (1949), and Hugh Laurie (1959). After him are Christopher Tolkien (1924), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969), Beatrix Potter (1866), Walter Raleigh (1554), and Archibald Hill (1886).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, James Parkinson ranks 5. Before him are Edward Jenner (1749), William Harvey (1578), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), and Joseph Lister (1827). After him are Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), John Snow (1813), Edgar Adrian (1889), James Black (1924), John Langdon Down (1828), Frederick Griffith (1879), and Alan Hodgkin (1914).

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