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Paul Langerhans

1847 - 1888

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Paul Langerhans (25 July 1847 – 20 July 1888) was a German pathologist, physiologist and biologist, credited with the discovery of the cells that secrete insulin, named after him as the islets of Langerhans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Langerhans has received more than 142,874 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Paul Langerhans is the 3,966th most popular politician (up from 4,083rd in 2019), the 1,092nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,134th in 2019) and the 322nd most popular German Politician.

Paul Langerhans was a German scientist who discovered cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Paul Langerhans ranks 3,966 out of 15,577Before him are Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria, Mengu-Timur, Emperor Ankō, Ibbi-Sin, Íñigo Arista of Pamplona, and Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern. After him are Sumu-la-El, Sun Liang, Julia Avita Mamaea, Cao Mao, Jacob De la Gardie, and Saloninus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Paul Langerhans ranks 22Before him are Jean Casimir-Perier, Maria Pia of Savoy, Max Liebermann, Catherine Dolgorukov, Radomir Putnik, and Sergey Nechayev. After him are Bolesław Prus, Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Nikolay Zhukovsky, John Bates Clark, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, and Galileo Ferraris. Among people deceased in 1888, Paul Langerhans ranks 13Before him are Louisa May Alcott, Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Charles-Valentin Alkan, François Achille Bazaine, and Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine. After him are Ascanio Sobrero, Theodor Storm, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Anton Mauve, Mary Ann Nichols, and Mary Jane Kelly.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Langerhans ranks 1,092 out of 6,142Before him are Joost van den Vondel (1587), Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Sigmund Jähn (1937), Radegund (518), Jack Steinberger (1921), and Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (1811). After him are Max Ophüls (1902), Engelbert Kaempfer (1651), Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775), Michael Ballack (1976), Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark (1647), and Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (1883).

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