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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 185,150 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Nikolay Pirogov is the 99th most popular biologist (up from 102nd in 2019), the 327th most popular biography from Russia (down from 324th 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 99 out of 841. Before him are Ibn al-Baitar, William Carey, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Thomas Huckle Weller, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and Carl Peter Thunberg. After him are Philip Sclater, Hans Christian Gram, Martinus Beijerinck, Günter Blobel, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and Sylvia Earle.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Pirogov ranks 327 out of 3,262. Before him are George Balanchine (1904), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Simeon of Moscow (1316), Leonid Hurwicz (1917), Eduard Khil (1934), and Igor Smirnov (1941). After him are Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822), Eduard Limonov (1943), Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (1860), Lila Kedrova (1918), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), and Leonid Govorov (1897).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Nikolay Pirogov ranks 7. Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Alexander Oparin (1894), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855). After him are Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799).

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