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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 492,696 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Oswald Avery is the 131st most popular physician (down from 101st in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Canada (down from 29th 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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  • 490k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Oswald Avery ranks 131 out of 726. Before him are Johannes Peter Müller, Dickinson W. Richards, Eduard Bloch, Nicolaes Tulp, John Snow, and Edgar Adrian. After him are George Emil Palade, Herta Oberheuser, Peter Damian, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Sushruta, and Ibn Zuhr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Oswald Avery ranks 23. Before him are Kārlis Ulmanis, Maurice Halbwachs, Alfred Cortot, Edgar Cayce, Arthur Cecil Pigou, and Enrico De Nicola. After him are Karl Abraham, Mykola Leontovych, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, Alfred Kubin, André Maginot, and Plutarco Elías Calles. Among people deceased in 1955, Oswald Avery ranks 25. Before him are George Enescu, Calouste Gulbenkian, Pak Hon-yong, Carmen Miranda, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, and Hermann Weyl. After him are Garegin Nzhdeh, Leonid Govorov, Mihály Károlyi, Michael Chekhov, Vasily Blokhin, and Rodolphe Seeldrayers.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Oswald Avery ranks 39 out of 1,622. Before him are Bryan Adams (1959), Robert Mundell (1932), Dan Aykroyd (1952), René Angélil (1942), Arthur B. McDonald (1943), and Bertram Brockhouse (1918). After him are Drake (1986), Jim Peebles (1935), Howard Shore (1946), Henry Mintzberg (1939), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), and Mary Pickford (1892).

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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), Maude Abbott (1868), James Heilman (1979), and Alaa Murabit (1989).

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