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John Ostrom

1928 - 2005

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John Harold Ostrom (February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) was an American paleontologist who revolutionized the modern understanding of dinosaurs. Ostrom's work inspired what his pupil Robert T. Bakker has termed a "dinosaur renaissance".Beginning with the discovery of Deinonychus in 1964, Ostrom challenged the widespread belief that dinosaurs were slow-moving lizards (or "saurians"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Ostrom has received more than 120,766 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). John Ostrom is the 569th most popular physician (down from 467th in 2019), the 8,197th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,938th in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Physician.

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  • 23

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  • 3.58

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  • 3.33

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, John Ostrom ranks 569 out of 502Before him are Abraham Jacobi, Narendra Dabholkar, John Jeffries, Fidel Pagés, Eugène Olivier, and Cecilia Grierson. After him are James Ewing, Priscilla Chan, Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Sophia Jex-Blake, William C. Gorgas, and Denton Cooley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, John Ostrom ranks 417Before him are Anna-Lisa Eriksson, Jeanne Cooper, Boris Kuznetsov, Ardico Magnini, Aleksandr Ivanov, and William Alexander Morgan. After him are Joaquín Capilla, Stig Sjölin, Antonio Ozores, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Sheila Jordan, and Cheikh Hamidou Kane. Among people deceased in 2005, John Ostrom ranks 265Before him are Jean Parker, Sergio Cervato, Sergei Starostin, Raoul Bott, Robin Cook, and Carl Amery. After him are Ismail Merchant, Aulis Kallakorpi, Derek Bailey, David Lange, Dahlia Ravikovitch, and Ihor Rybak.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Ostrom ranks 8,197 out of 18,182Before him are Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815), William Alexander Morgan (1928), Joseph Keller (1923), Beth Grant (1949), John Paul Stevens (1920), and James C. Adamson (1946). After him are Christine Ebersole (1953), Budge Patty (1924), Fred Alexander (1880), Damien Chazelle (1985), Elaine Hendrix (1970), and John Sedgwick (1813).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, John Ostrom ranks 67Before him are Leila Denmark (1898), Robert Atkins (1930), Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901), Thomas Horsfield (1773), Bernard Nathanson (1926), and John Jeffries (1745). After him are James Ewing (1866), Priscilla Chan (1985), William C. Gorgas (1854), Denton Cooley (1920), Jill Stein (1950), and Robert Spitzer (1932).