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Leo Kanner

1894 - 1981

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Leo Kanner (; born Chaskel Leib Kanner; June 13, 1894 – April 3, 1981) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician, and social activist best known for his work related to infantile autism. Before working at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Kanner practiced as a physician in Germany and South Dakota. In 1943, Kanner published his landmark paper Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact, describing 11 children who displayed "a powerful desire for aloneness" and "an obsessive insistence on persistent sameness." He named their condition "early infantile autism". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Kanner has received more than 370,379 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Kanner is the 4,115th most popular politician (down from 3,574th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 118th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Leo Kanner is most famous for his work in autism. He was the first person to describe autism as a disorder.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leo Kanner ranks 4,115 out of 15,577. Before him are Chivu Stoica, Andrej Hlinka, Gunderic, Lucius Vitellius the Elder, François Tombalbaye, and Inge the Younger. After him are Fatma Sultan, Patriarch Filaret of Moscow, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, Luigi Einaudi, and Stanisław Żółkiewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Leo Kanner ranks 51. Before him are Edogawa Ranpo, Lothar von Richthofen, Sergey Ilyushin, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Aino Aalto, and Percy Spencer. After him are Ernst Lindemann, V. V. Giri, Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Bessie Smith, André Kertész, and Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. Among people deceased in 1981, Leo Kanner ranks 41. Before him are Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Harry Harlow, Will Durant, Bill Haley, Bernard Lee, and Lobsang Rampa. After him are Omar Torrijos, Lotte Lenya, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Duško Popov, Stefan Wyszyński, and Karl Richter.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leo Kanner ranks 140 out of 1,083. Before him are Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Isaac Stern (1920), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Kunigunda of Halych (1245), and Sviatoslav II of Kiev (1027). After him are Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), Alfred Redl (1864), P. D. Ouspensky (1878), Serge Lifar (1904), Ida Rubinstein (1883), and Vladimir Korolenko (1853).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Leo Kanner ranks 47. Before him are Sviatopolk II of Kiev (1050), Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929), Ivan Sirko (1610), Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875), Ephraim Katzir (1916), and Sviatoslav II of Kiev (1027). After him are Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612), Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Ewelina Hańska (1805), Georgy Pyatakov (1890), and Shvarn (1230).

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