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John Snow

1813 - 1858

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John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology and early germ theory, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in London's Soho, which he identified as a particular public water pump. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Snow has received more than 2,453,829 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). John Snow is the 129th most popular physician (down from 114th in 2019), the 666th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 604th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Physician.

John Snow was a British physician and epidemiologist who discovered the cause of an 1854 cholera outbreak in London. Snow's map of the Soho neighborhood showed that most of the cholera cases were near the Broad Street water pump. His study convinced authorities to remove the handle from the pump, thus preventing any more cases of cholera.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, John Snow ranks 129 out of 726. Before him are Ragnar Granit, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Johannes Peter Müller, Dickinson W. Richards, Eduard Bloch, and Nicolaes Tulp. After him are Edgar Adrian, Oswald Avery, George Emil Palade, Herta Oberheuser, Peter Damian, and Giovanni Antonio Scopoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, John Snow ranks 11. Before him are Claude Bernard, Ivar Aasen, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Georg Büchner, Henry Bessemer, and Charles-Valentin Alkan. After him are Franz Miklosich, Camilla Collett, Baron Alexander von Bach, Theophil Hansen, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, and Princess Marie of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1858, John Snow ranks 10. Before him are Hiroshige, Rani of Jhansi, Matthew C. Perry, Johannes Peter Müller, Karl Thomas Mozart, and Anton Diabelli. After him are Ary Scheffer, Aimé Bonpland, Dred Scott, Joseph Karl Stieler, Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, and Hermann Heinrich Gossen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Snow ranks 666 out of 8,785. Before him are Bernard Lewis (1916), Philip Pullman (1946), Desmond Llewelyn (1914), Karl Pearson (1857), Sean Bean (1959), and John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924). After him are Edgar Adrian (1889), Leslie Howard (1893), Bill Wyman (1936), Oliver Smithies (1925), Thomas Chippendale (1718), and Gladwyn Jebb (1900).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, John Snow ranks 7. Before him are Edward Jenner (1749), William Harvey (1578), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Joseph Lister (1827), James Parkinson (1755), and Niels Kaj Jerne (1911). After him are Edgar Adrian (1889), James Black (1924), John Langdon Down (1828), Frederick Griffith (1879), Alan Hodgkin (1914), and Hans Sloane (1660).

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