BIOLOGIST

Nikolay Pirogov

1810 - 1881

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Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (Russian: Николай Иванович Пирогов; 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1810 — 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1881) was a Russian scientist, medical doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847), one of the most widely recognized Russian physicians. Considered to be the founder of field surgery, he was the first surgeon to use anaesthesia in a field operation (1847) and one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolay Pirogov has received more than 207,228 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Pirogov is the 109th most popular biologist (down from 98th in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from Russia (up from 326th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Biologist.

Nikolay Pirogov is most famous for his work in the area of anatomy. Pirogov is credited with the discovery of the ileocecal valve, the spleen, and the lymphatic system.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nikolay Pirogov ranks 109 out of 1,097Before him are Nettie Stevens, Thomas Huckle Weller, Louis Agassiz, Edward Tatum, Jan Swammerdam, and Julian Huxley. After him are Georg Forster, Alfred Hershey, John Gurdon, Aimé Bonpland, Hans Christian Gram, and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Nikolay Pirogov ranks 13Before him are Alfred de Musset, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, Éliphas Lévi, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and Ernst Kummer. After him are Otto Nicolai, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Fanny Elssler, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, and Francesco Maria Piave. Among people deceased in 1881, Nikolay Pirogov ranks 14Before him are Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Jenny von Westphalen, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, Auguste Mariette, and Henri Vieuxtemps. After him are Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Nikolai Rubinstein, Empress Dowager Ci'an, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Theobald Boehm, and Hermann Lotze.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Pirogov ranks 321 out of 3,761Before him are Leonid Govorov (1897), Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (1784), Vasily Arkhipov (1926), Mikhail Mishustin (1966), Andrey Markov (1856), and Andrey Bogolyubsky (1111). After him are Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), Natalya Naryshkina (1651), Sergey Ilyushin (1894), Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860), and Feodor Chaliapin (1873).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Nikolay Pirogov ranks 7Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Alexander Oparin (1894), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855). After him are Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), and Dmitry Belyayev (1917).