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Robert Knox

1791 - 1862

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Robert Knox (4 September 1791 – 20 December 1862) was a Scottish anatomist and ethnologist best known for his involvement in the Burke and Hare murders. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Knox eventually partnered with anatomist and former teacher John Barclay and became a lecturer on anatomy in the city, where he introduced the theory of transcendental anatomy. However, Knox's incautious methods of obtaining cadavers for dissection before the passage of the Anatomy Act 1832 and disagreements with professional colleagues ruined his career in Scotland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Knox has received more than 548,428 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Robert Knox is the 482nd most popular physician (down from 439th in 2019), the 2,959th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,993rd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

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  • 2.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Robert Knox ranks 482 out of 502. Before him are Carlo Urbani, Serenus Sammonicus, Wladimir Aïtoff, Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Giulio Bizzozero, and Max Gerson. After him are Jeffrey Ullman, Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Ancel Keys, Ludwig Aschoff, and Ruth Pfau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Robert Knox ranks 34. Before him are Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Alexis Thérèse Petit, and Václav Hanka. After him are Josef Munzinger, Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Odilon Barrot, William Elford Leach, József Katona, and Henryk Rzewuski. Among people deceased in 1862, Robert Knox ranks 41. Before him are Juana Azurduy de Padilla, Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov, Barbu Catargiu, José María Bocanegra, Francisco Balagtas, and Sofia Adlersparre. After him are Carlos Anaya, František Škroup, Frederick Townsend Ward, François Sudre, Felix de Muelenaere, and Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Knox ranks 2,959 out of 7,765. Before him are Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), Geoff Downes (1952), Robert Holdstock (1948), Christina Pickles (1935), Nathalie Emmanuel (1989), and Francis Hauksbee (1660). After him are Lee Kerslake (1947), Dawn Addams (1930), Jonathan Penrose (1933), Brian O'Nolan (1911), Thomas Digges (1546), and Anthony Phillips (1951).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Robert Knox ranks 43. Before him are James Young Simpson (1811), John Crawfurd (1783), James Paget (1814), William Hunter (1718), Richard Bright (1789), and Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816). After him are Thomas Francis Wade (1818), Ernest Starling (1866), Richard Leach Maddox (1816), Frederick Twort (1877), Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), and William Stukeley (1687).

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