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Oswald Avery

1877 - 1955

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Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. (October 21, 1877 – February 20, 1955) was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller Hospital in New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oswald Avery has received more than 477,304 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Oswald Avery is the 101st most popular physician (up from 127th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Canada (up from 41st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Physician.

Oswald Avery was a Canadian-American physician and microbiologist. He is most famous for his work with the Rockefeller Institute in developing the first effective vaccine for pneumococcus, a bacterial infection that causes pneumonia and meningitis.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Oswald Avery ranks 101 out of 502. Before him are Stanley Cohen, Ctesias, Otto Loewi, Qa'a, Bernardino of Siena, and Elias Lönnrot. After him are Alexandre Yersin, Elizabeth Blackwell, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Ragnar Granit, Charles Nicolle, and Arvid Carlsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Oswald Avery ranks 15. Before him are Charles Glover Barkla, Muhammad Iqbal, Louis Renault, Edgar Cayce, Raoul Dufy, and G. H. Hardy. After him are Kees van Dongen, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Kārlis Ulmanis, Said Nursî, Arthur Cecil Pigou, and Maurice Halbwachs. Among people deceased in 1955, Oswald Avery ranks 21. Before him are Arthur Honegger, Maurice Utrillo, Paul Claudel, George Enescu, Vasily Blokhin, and Calouste Gulbenkian. After him are Carmen Miranda, James B. Sumner, Hermann Weyl, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Pak Hon-yong, and John Mott.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Oswald Avery ranks 29 out of 1,350. Before him are William Shatner (1931), Gilles Villeneuve (1950), Dan Aykroyd (1952), Willard Boyle (1924), Neil Young (1945), and Robert Mundell (1932). After him are John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), Bryan Adams (1959), Pierre Trudeau (1919), Howard Shore (1946), Henry Mintzberg (1939), and Richard E. Taylor (1929).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Canada

Among physicians born in Canada, Oswald Avery ranks 2. Before him are Frederick Banting (1891). After him are Charles Brenton Huggins (1901), David H. Hubel (1926), Norman Bethune (1890), William Osler (1849), Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914), Édouard Gagnon (1918), Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929), and James Heilman (1979).

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