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Maurice Raynaud

1834 - 1881

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Auguste Gabriel Maurice Raynaud (10 August 1834 – 29 June 1881) was the French medical doctor who discovered Raynaud syndrome, a vasospastic disorder which contracts blood vessels in extremities and is the "R" in the CREST syndrome acronym, in the late 19th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Raynaud has received more than 72,886 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Maurice Raynaud is the 622nd most popular physician (down from 517th in 2019), the 4,741st most popular biography from France (down from 3,976th in 2019) and the 59th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Maurice Raynaud ranks 622 out of 726Before him are Emily Blackwell, Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, Vilma Hugonnai, Türkan Saylan, Concepción Aleixandre, and Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet. After him are Jill Stein, Peter Lesgaft, Fernando Quiroga Palacios, William C. Gorgas, María Teresa Ferrari, and William H. Welch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Maurice Raynaud ranks 84Before him are Louis Ruchonnet, Jacob Volhard, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Franz Steindachner, Adolph Frank, and Manuel Pardo. After him are Princess Marie of Baden, Rafael Zaldívar, Édouard Pailleron, Emil Stang, José Eugenio Ellauri, and Charles Augustus Young. Among people deceased in 1881, Maurice Raynaud ranks 76Before him are Gustav von Alvensleben, Gustav Neumann, Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Salvador Jovellanos, George Borrow, and Robert Mallet. After him are Samuel Palmer, Kolyu Ficheto, Jānis Cimze, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Josip Jurčič, and James Collinson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Raynaud ranks 4,741 out of 6,770Before him are Anthony Modeste (1988), Guy Drut (1950), Kazimir Hnatow (1929), Théodore Aubanel (1829), Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817), and Adrienne Bolland (1895). After him are René Barbier (1891), Claude Allègre (1937), Lucas Digne (1993), Natalie Dessay (1965), Jacques Audiberti (1899), and Presnel Kimpembe (1995).

Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Maurice Raynaud ranks 59Before him are Henri Dutrochet (1776), Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835), Aemilia Hilaria (300), Jean Cruveilhier (1791), Madeleine Pelletier (1874), and Julieta Lanteri (1873). After him are Eugène Olivier (1881).