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Jean Pierre Flourens

1794 - 1867

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Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (13 April 1794 – 6 December 1867), father of Gustave Flourens, was a French physiologist, the founder of experimental brain science, and a pioneer in anesthesia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Pierre Flourens has received more than 97,362 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jean Pierre Flourens is the 358th most popular physician (up from 372nd in 2019), the 2,856th most popular biography from France (up from 2,916th in 2019) and the 40th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Jean Pierre Flourens ranks 358 out of 726. Before him are Ewald Hering, Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, Mehmet Oz, Stamen Grigorov, Hilary Koprowski, and Justinus Kerner. After him are Robert Darwin, Carlos Chagas, Moritz Kaposi, Pierre Fauchard, Johann von Staupitz, and Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Jean Pierre Flourens ranks 24. Before him are Friedrich Christian Diez, Ami Boué, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, and Achille Richard. After him are Jacques Collin de Plancy, Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, René Lesson, Jacques Babinet, Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Among people deceased in 1867, Jean Pierre Flourens ranks 33. Before him are James Ferguson, Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, Faustin Soulouque, Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary, Armand Trousseau, and Mohammad Afzal Khan. After him are Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Jacques Ignace Hittorff, Simon Sechter, Ramón Castilla, and Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Pierre Flourens ranks 2,856 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Angrand (1854), Jean Vincent (1930), Maryan Wisniewski (1937), Varro Atacinus (-82), Albert Kahn (1860), and Andréa Ferréol (1947). After him are Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), Pierre André de Suffren (1729), Adolf Wagner (1890), François-Jean de la Barre (1745), Antoine Pesne (1683), and William Waddington (1826).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Jean Pierre Flourens ranks 40. Before him are Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757), Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643), Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788), Antoine Louis (1723), Louis de Jaucourt (1704), and Ernest Duchesne (1874). After him are Pierre Fauchard (1679), Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1742), Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755), Charles Estienne (1504), Adrien Proust (1834), and Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol (1786).

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