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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 2,270,245 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). John Snow is the 114th most popular physician (down from 99th in 2019), the 604th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 595th 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 114 out of 502Before him are Eric Kandel, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, George Minot, Peter Damian, Johann Joachim Becher, and Edgar Adrian. After him are Ferid Murad, Francis Peyton Rous, Herta Oberheuser, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Harvey J. Alter, and John Eccles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, John Snow ranks 8Before him are Richard Wagner, Søren Kierkegaard, David Livingstone, Claude Bernard, Ivar Aasen, and Georg Büchner. After him are Henry Bessemer, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Franz Miklosich, Princess Josephine of Baden, and Baron Alexander von Bach. Among people deceased in 1858, John Snow ranks 8Before him are Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Robert Brown, Rani of Jhansi, Hiroshige, Karl Thomas Mozart, and Matthew C. Perry. After him are Anton Diabelli, Johannes Peter Müller, Dred Scott, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, and Aimé Bonpland.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Snow ranks 604 out of 7,765Before him are Malcolm Young (1953), Ann Radcliffe (1764), John Franklin (1786), John Davis (1550), Nick Mason (1944), and Edgar Adrian (1889). After him are Tony Iommi (1948), Tom Hardy (1977), Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388), William Dampier (1651), John Flamsteed (1646), and Henry the Young King (1155).

Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, John Snow ranks 7Before him are Edward Jenner (1749), William Harvey (1578), Joseph Lister (1827), James Parkinson (1755), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), and Edgar Adrian (1889). After him are Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), Frederick Griffith (1879), Mungo Park (1771), John Langdon Down (1828), Alan Hodgkin (1914), and Thomas Willis (1621).