PHYSICIAN

Patrick Steptoe

1913 - 1988

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Patrick Christopher Steptoe CBE FRS (9 June 1913 – 21 March 1988) was an English obstetrician and gynaecologist and a pioneer of fertility treatment. Steptoe was responsible with biologist and physiologist Robert Edwards and the nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy for developing in vitro fertilisation. Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born on 25 July 1978. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Patrick Steptoe has received more than 175,640 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Patrick Steptoe is the 682nd most popular physician, the 5,472nd most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 68th most popular British Physician.

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  • 180k

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  • 41.70

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.69

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  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Patrick Steptoe ranks 682 out of 726Before him are Samuel Gridley Howe, Samuel George Morton, Louisa Garrett Anderson, Rachel Levine, Aarne Pohjonen, and Elizabeth Kenny. After him are Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Bert Vogelstein, Marie Senghor Basse, Charles R. Drew, Anders Nordström, and Fe del Mundo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Patrick Steptoe ranks 391Before him are Eleanor Holm, Odd Frantzen, Jack Fairman, Julie Gibson, Roger Laurent, and Norman Dello Joio. After him are Charlie Barnet, Franz Berghammer, Coral Browne, Sid James, István Klimek, and Joe Medicine Crow. Among people deceased in 1988, Patrick Steptoe ranks 262Before him are Ron Staniforth, Alf Martinsen, John Clellon Holmes, Bob Steele, Kenneth Williams, and Daws Butler. After him are Stuart Symington, István Klimek, Brook Benton, Nikolai Sologubov, Leonard Frey, and Florence Eldridge.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Patrick Steptoe ranks 5,472 out of 8,785Before him are Alexander Wilson (1766), Gerry Marsden (1942), Edna Best (1900), Neil Warnock (1948), Paula Radcliffe (1973), and Gillian Sheen (1928). After him are Emma Chambers (1964), Susan Hill (1942), Archie Gemmill (1947), Alex Cox (1954), Sandy Powell (1960), and Declan Rice (1999).

Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Patrick Steptoe ranks 68Before him are Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), Thomas C. Jerdon (1811), Ran Laurie (1915), Richard Doll (1912), Flora Murray (1869), and Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873). After him are Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850), William Hewson (1739), and Vivek Murthy (1977).