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Johannes Fibiger

1867 - 1928

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Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (23 April 1867 – 30 January 1928) was a Danish physician and professor of anatomical pathology at the University of Copenhagen. He was the recipient of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma". He claimed to have shown that the roundworm which he called Spiroptera carcinoma (but is correctly named Gongylonema neoplasticum) could cause stomach cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) in rats and mice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Fibiger has received more than 120,930 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Johannes Fibiger is the 63rd most popular physician (up from 85th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 68th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Physician.

Johannes Fibiger is most famous for his theory that stomach cancer is caused by the parasite, Schistosoma haematobium.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 17.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Johannes Fibiger ranks 63 out of 726. Before him are Gerhard Domagk, Emil Theodor Kocher, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Karl Brandt, Hans Asperger, and William P. Murphy. After him are Francesco Redi, Shirō Ishii, Ferid Murad, Otto Loewi, Christiaan Barnard, and Herophilos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Johannes Fibiger ranks 17. Before him are Käthe Kollwitz, John Galsworthy, Natsume Sōseki, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Walther Rathenau, and Maxime Weygand. After him are Władysław Reymont, Pierre Bonnard, Enrique Granados, Stanley Baldwin, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Ignacy Mościcki. Among people deceased in 1928, Johannes Fibiger ranks 10. Before him are Leoš Janáček, Max Scheler, Maria Feodorovna, Emmeline Pankhurst, Édouard-Henri Avril, and Pyotr Wrangel. After him are Theodore William Richards, Zhang Zuolin, Franz Stuck, Thomas Hardy, Italo Svevo, and Giovanni Giolitti.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Johannes Fibiger ranks 60 out of 1,032. Before him are Princess Benedikte of Denmark (1944), Nicolas Steno (1638), Carl Nielsen (1865), Mads Mikkelsen (1965), Anders Fogh Rasmussen (1953), and Tollund Man (-400). After him are Anna Karina (1940), Canute IV of Denmark (1043), Arne Jacobsen (1902), Eric VI of Denmark (1274), August Krogh (1874), and Jørn Utzon (1918).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Denmark

Among physicians born in Denmark, Johannes Fibiger ranks 1. After him are August Krogh (1874), Jens Christian Skou (1918), Christian Bohr (1855), Carl Værnet (1893), Max Heindel (1865), Emil Aarestrup (1800), Carl Lange (1834), and Halfdan T. Mahler (1923).

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