1854 - 1915
Paul Ehrlich (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈʔeːɐ̯lɪç] ; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure for syphilis in 1909 and inventing the precursor technique to Gram staining bacteria. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Ehrlich has received more than 1,360,559 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Paul Ehrlich is the 27th most popular physician (up from 32nd in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Poland (up from 65th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Physician.
Paul Ehrlich is most famous for his discovery of the drug Salvarsan, which is used to treat syphilis.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among physicians, Paul Ehrlich ranks 27 out of 502. Before him are Pedanius Dioscorides, Jacques Rogge, Rudolf Virchow, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Polycarp, and Camillo Golgi. After him are Willem Einthoven, Alexis Carrel, Georgius Agricola, Al-Zahrawi, Emil von Behring, and António Egas Moniz.
40 - 90
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 21
1942 - 2021
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 22
1821 - 1902
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 23
1738 - 1814
HPI: 70.71
Rank: 24
69 - 155
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 25
1843 - 1926
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 26
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 27
1860 - 1927
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 28
1873 - 1944
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 29
1494 - 1555
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 30
936 - 1013
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 31
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 32
1874 - 1955
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 33
Among people born in 1854, Paul Ehrlich ranks 6. Before him are Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, Pope Benedict XV, Henri Poincaré, and Leoš Janáček. After him are Karl Kautsky, James George Frazer, Emil von Behring, Henri La Fontaine, Paul Sabatier, and George Eastman. Among people deceased in 1915, Paul Ehrlich ranks 4. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor, Alois Alzheimer, and Alexander Scriabin. After him are Henry Moseley, Ellen G. White, Porfirio Díaz, Jean-Henri Fabre, Clara Immerwahr, Sergei Witte, Wilhelm Windelband, and Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
1854 - 1900
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 1
1854 - 1891
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 2
1854 - 1922
HPI: 77.30
Rank: 3
1854 - 1912
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 4
1854 - 1928
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 5
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 6
1854 - 1938
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 7
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 8
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 9
1854 - 1943
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 10
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 11
1854 - 1932
HPI: 64.15
Rank: 12
1856 - 1915
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 1
1864 - 1915
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 2
1871 - 1915
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 3
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 4
1887 - 1915
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 5
1827 - 1915
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 6
1830 - 1915
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 7
1823 - 1915
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 8
1870 - 1915
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 9
1849 - 1915
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 10
1848 - 1915
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 11
1866 - 1915
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 12
Among people born in Poland, Paul Ehrlich ranks 49 out of 1,454. Before him are Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Christian Wolff (1679), and Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906). After him are Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Klaus Kinski (1926), Otto Stern (1888), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), and Eric of Pomerania (1381).
1520 - 1572
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 43
1949 - 2010
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 44
1898 - 1980
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 45
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 46
1679 - 1754
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 47
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 48
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 49
1923 - 2014
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 50
1424 - 1444
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 51
1926 - 1991
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 52
1888 - 1969
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 53
1768 - 1834
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 54
1381 - 1459
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 55
Among physicians born in Poland, Paul Ehrlich ranks 3. Before him are L. L. Zamenhof (1859) and Rudolf Virchow (1821). After him are Emil von Behring (1854), Albert Sabin (1906), Carl Wernicke (1848), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Jan Jesenius (1566), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Gavriil Ilizarov (1921), and Hilary Koprowski (1916).
1859 - 1917
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 1
1821 - 1902
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 2
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 3
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 4
1906 - 1993
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 5
1848 - 1905
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 6
1868 - 1935
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 7
1873 - 1928
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 8
1566 - 1621
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 9
1865 - 1939
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 10
1921 - 1992
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 11
1916 - 2013
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 12