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María Teresa Ferrari

1887 - 1956

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María Teresa Ferrari (11 October 1887 – 30 October 1956) was an Argentine educator, physician, and women's rights activist. She was the first female university professor in Latin America and one of the first women allowed to teach medicine. She was a pioneering researcher in women's health, studying the use of radiation therapy rather than surgery for uterine tumors and developing a vaginoscope that revolutionized women's health care in Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of María Teresa Ferrari has received more than 49,909 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. María Teresa Ferrari is the 627th most popular physician, the 522nd most popular biography from Argentina and the 4th most popular Argentinean Physician.

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  • 45.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, María Teresa Ferrari ranks 627 out of 726. Before her are Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Maurice Raynaud, Jill Stein, Peter Lesgaft, Fernando Quiroga Palacios, and William C. Gorgas. After her are William H. Welch, Anders Tegnell, Andrea Andreen, Harry Benjamin, Fidel Pagés, and Archie Cochrane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, María Teresa Ferrari ranks 244. Before her are Giuseppe Domenichelli, Samuel Eliot Morison, Al Ernest Garcia, Anthony van Hoboken, Jerónimo Méndez, and Oscar Kreuzer. After her are Clive Brook, Fartein Valen, Juan Manuel Gálvez, Umberto Zanolini, William Henry Dean, and Sigurd Jørgensen. Among people deceased in 1956, María Teresa Ferrari ranks 186. Before her are Robert Yerkes, Jan Lechoń, Otto Scheff, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Khadr El-Touni, and Leonard Peterson. After her are Alex Raymond, Wollmar Boström, Edward Arnold, Jim Elliot, René Bougnol, and Georg Brustad.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, María Teresa Ferrari ranks 522 out of 1,154. Before her are Miguel Ángel Russo (1956), Graciela Borges (1941), Julián Gil (1970), Sergio Omar Almirón (1958), Oscar Rossi (1930), and Américo Tesoriere (1899). After her are Roberto Telch (1943), José Sosa (1985), Cristian Romero (1998), Alfredo Pián (1912), Roberto Mouzo (1953), and Alberto Crespo (1920).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Argentina

Among physicians born in Argentina, María Teresa Ferrari ranks 4. Before her are Bernardo Houssay (1887), René Favaloro (1923), and Cecilia Grierson (1859).

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