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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 333,327 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). James Parkinson is the 67th most popular physician (down from 54th in 2019), the 413th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 358th in 2019) and the 4th 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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  • 330k

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  • 65.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, James Parkinson ranks 67 out of 502. Before him are Eugen Bleuler, Emil Theodor Kocher, Djer, Herophilos, Joseph Lister, and Herbert Spencer Gasser. After him are Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Peter Canisius, Hans Selye, William P. Murphy, Selman Waksman, and Ronald Ross.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, James Parkinson ranks 8. Before him are Louis XVIII of France, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Samuel Hahnemann, Axel von Fersen the Younger, Alexander Hamilton, and Paul Barras. After him are Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, François Joseph Lefebvre, Georges Couthon, Anthony of Saxony, and Gerhard von Scharnhorst. Among people deceased in 1824, James Parkinson ranks 6. Before him are Lord Byron, Louis XVIII of France, Théodore Géricault, Eugène de Beauharnais, and Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After him are Anne Catherine Emmerich, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Agustín de Iturbide, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, and Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Parkinson ranks 413 out of 7,765. Before him are Thomas Carlyle (1795), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), William Baffin (1584), Richard Wright (1943), Alan Parker (1944), and David Lean (1908). After him are Christopher Wren (1632), Edgar the Peaceful (943), Richard Branson (1950), Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767), Joan Clarke (1917), and Robbie Coltrane (1950).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, James Parkinson ranks 4. Before him are Edward Jenner (1749), William Harvey (1578), and Joseph Lister (1827). After him are Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Edgar Adrian (1889), John Snow (1813), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), Frederick Griffith (1879), Mungo Park (1771), John Langdon Down (1828), and Alan Hodgkin (1914).

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