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Max Gerson

1881 - 1959

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Max Gerson (October 18, 1881 – March 8, 1959) was a German-born American physician who developed the Gerson Therapy, a dietary-based alternative cancer treatment that he claimed could cure cancer and most chronic, degenerative diseases. Gerson described his approach in the book A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases (1958). The National Cancer Institute evaluated Gerson's claims and concluded that his data showed no benefit from his treatment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Gerson has received more than 675,074 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Gerson is the 481st most popular physician, the 808th most popular biography from Poland and the 19th most popular Polish Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Max Gerson ranks 481 out of 502. Before him are Benjamin Rush, Carlo Urbani, Serenus Sammonicus, Wladimir Aïtoff, Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, and Giulio Bizzozero. After him are Robert Knox, Jeffrey Ullman, Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Ancel Keys, and Ludwig Aschoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Max Gerson ranks 129. Before him are Vilhelm Buhl, Curt Haase, María Blanchard, Sergey Merkurov, Karl Staaf, and Henry Maitland Wilson. After him are Lewis Fry Richardson, Refik Saydam, Gaston Gallimard, Aleksandr Gerasimov, Arkady Averchenko, and Louis Bastien. Among people deceased in 1959, Max Gerson ranks 121. Before him are Boughera El Ouafi, Esfir Shub, Erhard Schmidt, Kathryn Adams, Lou Costello, and Alexander Rueb. After him are Boris Eikhenbaum, Albert Namatjira, Edith Clarke, Heleno de Freitas, Max O. Lorenz, and Roald Larsen.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Max Gerson ranks 808 out of 1,454. Before him are Joanna Pacuła (1957), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), Walter Thiel (1910), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), Arkady Fiedler (1894), and Wojciech Korfanty (1873). After him are Jan Śniadecki (1756), Alfred Stock (1876), Arno Holz (1863), Johannes Winkler (1897), Gustav Radde (1831), and Kornel Morawiecki (1941).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Max Gerson ranks 19. Before him are Leon Pinsker (1821), Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), Robert Remak (1815), Wilhelm Fliess (1858), Zofia Zamenhof (1889), and Kazimierz Bein (1872). After him are Ludwig Traube (1818), Joseph Schröter (1837), and Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer (1858).

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