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James Young Simpson

1811 - 1870

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Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet, (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870), was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine. He was the first physician to demonstrate the anaesthetic properties of chloroform on humans and helped to popularise its use in medicine. Simpson's intellectual interests ranged from archaeology to an almost taboo subject at the time: hermaphroditism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Young Simpson has received more than 446,569 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). James Young Simpson is the 448th most popular physician (down from 401st in 2019), the 2,636th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,434th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Physician.

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  • 450k

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  • 49.90

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, James Young Simpson ranks 448 out of 502. Before him are Arnold Pick, Abella, Rutherford Alcock, Harry Seeley, Adolf Meyer, and Rebecca Guarna. After him are John Crawfurd, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Kazimierz Bein, Hulusi Behçet, Erik Adolf von Willebrand, and Willem Johan Kolff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, James Young Simpson ranks 52. Before him are Sakuma Shōzan, Horace Greeley, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Giulia Grisi, and Johann Georg von Hahn. After him are Johann Dzierzon, Carl Johan Thyselius, Dimitrija Demeter, Judah P. Benjamin, John Neumann, and James Hall. Among people deceased in 1870, James Young Simpson ranks 41. Before him are Imre Frivaldszky, Alexei Lvov, Princess Amalie of Saxony, Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, Infante Enrique, Duke of Seville, and Aasmund Olavsson Vinje. After him are Pieter Bleeker, Arthur Saint-Léon, Johann Heinrich Blasius, Michael William Balfe, Moshoeshoe I, and Carl August von Steinheil.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Young Simpson ranks 2,636 out of 7,765. Before him are Sam Claflin (1986), Edwin Landseer (1802), Anne of York (1475), Jeffrey Tate (1943), Sally Potter (1949), and Julian Sands (1958). After him are Anita Brookner (1928), John Crawfurd (1783), Jack Greenwell (1884), David Heyman (1961), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), and John Lilburne (1614).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, James Young Simpson ranks 37. Before him are James Braid (1795), William Gull (1816), Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), William Turner (1510), Rutherford Alcock (1809), and Harry Seeley (1839). After him are John Crawfurd (1783), James Paget (1814), William Hunter (1718), Richard Bright (1789), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), and Robert Knox (1791).

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