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Robin Cook

1940 - Today

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Robert Brian "Robin" Cook (born May 4, 1940) is an American physician and novelist who writes largely about medicine and topics affecting public health. He is known best for combining medical writing with the thriller genre. Many of his books have been bestsellers on The New York Times Best Seller List. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robin Cook has received more than 1,285,064 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Robin Cook is the 164th most popular physician (down from 137th in 2019), the 1,280th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,100th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Physician.

Robin Cook is most famous for his medical thrillers.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Robin Cook ranks 164 out of 726. Before him are Severo Ochoa, Charles Brenton Huggins, John Langdon Down, George Whipple, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, and Agnodice. After him are Georgios Papanikolaou, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Andrea Cesalpino, Engelbert Kaempfer, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, and Aretaeus of Cappadocia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Robin Cook ranks 86. Before him are Tom Jones, Marlène Jobert, Herbie Hancock, Stuart Sutcliffe, Toshihide Maskawa, and George Akerlof. After him are Dionne Warwick, Ali Hassan Salameh, Phil Ochs, Jean-Luc Nancy, Vittorio Storaro, and Gojko Mitić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robin Cook ranks 1,280 out of 20,380. Before him are Francis Gary Powers (1929), Thelonious Monk (1917), Paul Ryan (1970), Christina Onassis (1950), Carla Bley (1936), and Alan Silvestri (1950). After him are Frederic Edwin Church (1826), John Dickinson (1732), Ivan Sutherland (1938), Timothy Leary (1920), Susan Hayward (1917), and J. Michael Bishop (1936).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Robin Cook ranks 18. Before him are Dickinson W. Richards (1895), Joseph Erlanger (1874), Harvey J. Alter (1935), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), George H. Hitchings (1905), and George Whipple (1878). After him are Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Joseph Murray (1919), Louis Ignarro (1941), Peter Agre (1949), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), and Patch Adams (1945).

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