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Paolo Macchiarini

1958 - Today

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Paolo Macchiarini (born 22 August 1958) is a thoracic surgeon and former regenerative medicine researcher who became known for research fraud and manipulative behavior. He was convicted of research-related crimes in Italy and Sweden. Previously considered a pioneer for using both biological and synthetic scaffolds seeded with patients' own stem cells as trachea transplants, Macchiarini was a visiting professor and director on a temporary contract at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet (KI) from 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paolo Macchiarini has received more than 4,595,933 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Paolo Macchiarini is the 542nd most popular physician, the 462nd most popular biography from Switzerland and the 16th most popular Swiss Physician.

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  • 4.6M

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  • 56.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Paolo Macchiarini ranks 542 out of 726. Before him are Özlem Türeci, Jan Janský, Burrill Bernard Crohn, Adam Zamenhof, Albrecht von Graefe, and Thomas Horsfield. After him are Nikolay Gamaleya, Łucja Frey, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, Franz Josef Ruprecht, Antonius Musa, and Jeffrey Ullman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Paolo Macchiarini ranks 204. Before him are Kim Coates, Peter H. Gilmore, Thomas Hearns, Volodymyr Bezsonov, Kornelia Ender, and Gigi Becali. After him are Mark Cuban, David Sylvian, Deon Meyer, Giovanni Lavaggi, Michael López-Alegría, and Miki Biasion.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Paolo Macchiarini ranks 462 out of 1,015. Before him are Marc-Émile Ruchet (1853), Romain Grosjean (1986), Max Petitpierre (1899), Georges de Rham (1903), Johann David Wyss (1743), and Alain de Botton (1969). After him are Aurelio Galfetti (1936), Hermann Barrelet (1879), Otto Stich (1927), Alexander Frei (1979), Madeleine Berthod (1931), and Severino Minelli (1909).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Paolo Macchiarini ranks 16. Before him are Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Adolf Meyer (1866), and Wilhelm His Sr. (1831). After him are Thomas Erastus (1524), and Daniel Mojon (1963).

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